Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: The mighty frame of glorious grace
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Hymn Number: 336
Page Number: 322, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThe mighty frame of glorious grace,
That brightest monument of praise,
That e'er the God of love designed,
Employs and fills my laboring mind.
Begin, my soul, the heavenly song,
A burden for an angel's tongue;
When Gabriel sounds these awful things
He tunes and summons all his strings.
Proclaim inimitable love,
Jesus, the Lord of worlds above,
Puts off the beams of bright array,
And veils the God in mortal clay.
He that distributes crowns and thrones,
Hangs on a tree and bleeds and groans!
The Prince of life resigns his breath,
The King of glory bows to death.
But see the wonders of his power,
He triumphs in his dying hour;
And while by Satan's rage he fell,
He dashed the rising hopes of hell.
Thus were the hosts of death subdued,
And sin was drowned in Jesus' blood,
Then he arose and reigns above,
And conquers sinners by his love.