Hymns, #975

Ultimate Manifestation - The Holy City

Eng/Kor:975  Chin:774  Span:454  Rus:437  Tag:975  Fra:975  Por:497

Lyrics:Witness Lee
Music:C. Goudimel
Meter:10.10.10.10.

Hymns using same tune:

#454, #549, #575, #762, #1195

 
 1 

It was a garden in the primal age,

But at the end it is a city square;

Creation's center in the garden was,

God's building issues in the city fair.

 
 2 

Both in the garden and the city fair

A river and the tree of life are seen,

Christ typifying as the life supply,

The Spirit showing as the living stream.

 
 3 

Both in the garden and the city bright

Three kinds of precious substances are found;

There are the gold, the pearls, and precious stones

Which for the building work of God abound.

 
 4 

But in the garden all these precious things

Are just materials lying in the earth,

Yet in the city all are builded up

And form that dwelling of transcendent worth.

 
 5 

Man in the garden of the clay was formed,

In nature as the Lord created him;

The tree of life was then without the man,

Not having yet become his life within.

 
 6 

But in the city glorious the tree

Within the corporate "man" doth grow, thereby

Revealing Christ Himself as life divine

Being to man his inward life supply.

 
 7 

'Tis for the city man is wrought upon,

Therefore regenerated and transformed

To purest gold, to pearls and precious stones,

As Christ's own Body, to Himself conformed.

 
 8 

Within the garden also was a bride,

Who was to Adam as his counterpart;

Lastly, the city is itself the bride

As Christ's own fulness, precious to His heart.

 
 9 

The city is God's building work replete,

A composition of the justified;

A habitation it affords to God

And is to Christ His own beloved bride.

 
 10 

'Tis God's expression, ultimate and full,

Corporate and universal, marvelous;

God's glory it completely manifests,

And is Christ's counterpart most glorious.

 
Hymn #975