Hymns, #88

Praise of the Lord - His Life

Eng/Kor:88  Chin:76  Span:-  Rus:-  Tag:88  Fra:-  Por:-

Lyrics:Arthur C. Coxe
Music:Charles Burney, from Psalmodia Evangelica, 1789
Meter:8.8.8.8.

Hymns using same tune:

#233, #820

 
 1 

How beauteous were the marks divine,

That in Thy meekness used to shine,

That lit Thy lonely pathway, trod

In wondrous love, O Son of God!

 
 2 

O who like Thee, so mild, so bright,

Thou Son of man, Thou Light of light?

O who like Thee did ever go

So patient, through a world of woe?

 
 3 

O who like Thee so humbly bore

The scorn, the scoffs of men, before?

So meek, so lowly, yet so high,

So glorious in humility?

 
 4 

And death, that sets the prisoner free,

Was pang, and scoff, and scorn to Thee;

Yet love through all Thy torture glowed,

And mercy with Thy life-blood flowed.

 
 5 

O wondrous Lord, my soul would be

Still more and more conformed to Thee,

And learn of Thee, the lowly One,

And like Thee, all my journey run.

 
Hymn #88