Trinity Hymns (1767)1 Baker list, 302 Editorial Introduction: Charles Wesley laid particular emphasis on hymns of praise to the Trinity. He included a set of short hymns with this focus in HSP (1740), 100-104; and a second set, under the subheading "Gloria Patri," in Hymns on God's Love (1742), 54-60. These were followed by Gloria Patri (1746), which contained twenty-four hymns devoted to the Trinity. Much of the impetus behind these hymns was simple praise. But part of Charles's concern was to resist the tendency in some contemporary writers to restrict claims about the full divinity of the Son or the Spirit, adopting implicit Arian or Unitarian understandings of God. In 1756 William Jones, a fellow Anglican priest, published Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity, proved by above an Hundred Short and Clear Arguments, which offered a vigorous defense of the full divinity of all three Persons of the Trinity. Both John and Charles Wesley welcomed the book, though they shared a concern that its academic style limited the scope of its impact. In Hymns for Children (1763), Charles Wesley had made the lessons in John's Instructions for Children more accessible by rendering the central points in verse. He decided to do the same with Jones's exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity. The result was published in 1767 as Hymns on the Trinity. The majority of this volume (the first 136 of the 188 hymns included) was essentially the exposition of Jones put in poetic form. It follows the structure of Jones's book, using the same scriptural references, etc. Many of the articulations are very effective. Jones might have appreciated them himself, if Charles had sought his input (or permission!) for the work. The final section of this work is comprised of fifty-two "Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity," which Charles composed more freely. The organization of this section is dictated by the metre of the hymns, not the topic. Specifically, Charles arranged the first twenty-four hymns in the section to correspond to the metre of the twenty-four Festival Hymns (1746), allowing him to suggest Lampe's tunes for these hymns (and the others in the collection with the same metre).

Specifically, Charles arranged the first twenty-four hymns in the section to correspond to the metre of the twenty-four Festival Hymns (1746), allowing him to suggest Lampe's tunes for these hymns (and the others in the collection with the same metre). Charles had employed this strategy once earlier in Redemption Hymns (1747), and used it for Family Hymns as well in 1767.2 While a dozen or so of the hymns included made it into other collections used among the Methodists, Trinity Hymns (1767) was never reprinted. Edition: Charles Wesley. Hymns on the Trinity. Bristol: Pine, 1767. Table of Contents Hymns on the Divinity of Christ. The Divinity of the Holy Ghost. The Plurality and Trinity of Persons. The Trinity in Unity. Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity. Page 3 "Sanctify the LORD OF HOSTS HIMSELF, and let HIM be your fear, and let HIM be your dread: and HE shall be for a sanctuary; but for a STONE OF STUMBLING and ROCK OF OFFENCE to both houses of Israel." Isa. viii. 13, 14. "The stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner: and a STONE OF STUMBLING, and ROCK OF OFFENCE." 1 Pet. ii. 7, 8. The Lord of hosts himself alone Worthy to be rever'd we own, By earth and heaven ador'd: Let all the One true God proclaim, Worship the dread Jehovah's name, Bow down to Christ the Lord. Those words on which the stress lies, are printed in capitals. Page 4 A sanctuary the faithful find, A refuge from the storm and wind, In Christ the Lord most high: But who refuse on him to call, Shall on the stone of stumbling fall, And unconverted die.

Rock of offence at first he was: And Christians stumbling at the cross Deny whom Jews denied: They will not know that Christ is he, Or the supreme Jehovah see In Jesus crucified. But Jesus to his church is known, Jesus the precious corner-stone, By Israel disallow'd; Jehovah seen, and manifest, God over all for ever blest, Thou art my Lord my God! "Mine eyes have SEEN the King, the LORD OF HOSTS." Isa. vi. 5. "These things said Esaias, when he SAW HIS GLORY, and spake of HIM." John xii. 41. O would my God the veil withdraw, That whom the favour'd prophet saw, Mine eyes of faith might see, The Lord by his own light beheld, Th' invisible on earth reveal'd, In glorious majesty! Then would I joyfully proclaim The Lord of hosts in Jesu's name, The only God most high, The everlasting Father bless, Jehovah in the Prince of Peace, Whose glory fills the sky. Page 5 Th' Almighty Lord of earth and heaven, Who to the world his Son hath given, The mystery reveals, Existing from himself alone, God in the Person of his Son With all his fulness dwells. "Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel and his Redeemer the LORD OF HOSTS, I am THE FIRST, and I am THE LAST, and BESIDES ME there is NO GOD." Isa. xliv. 6. "I (Jesus) am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, THE FIRST and THE LAST." Rev. xxii. 13. The sovereign Lord of hosts is One, For ever glorified, The first and last is God alone, There is no God beside: Worship divine to him is due, Who doth the title claim, The Alpha and Omega too, The first and last I AM. The King of saints, the Lord of hosts, Almighty to redeem, In him his ransom'd people trusts The One great God supreme: Jesus, thou art to us made known Fulness of deity: There is no other God but One, No other God but thee. "I, even I am the LORD, and BESIDES ME there is NO SAVIOUR." Isa. xliii. 11. Page 6 "OUR LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST." 2 Pet. iii. 18. Jehovah the Lord In him we confide, We find in his word No Saviour beside: He only is given Our souls to release, No name under heaven Can save us but his.

In Jesus's name Jehovah is found, The throne of the Lamb We worship around, Supreme adoration We pay the Most High, Who brought us salvation Himself from the sky. Jehovah receive The loftiest praise Of sinners who live Redeem'd by thy grace: Come, Saviour, and fill us With fulness divine, Inhabit, and seal us Eternally thine. "The LORD GOD of the holy prophets SENT HIS ANGEL to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done." Rev. xxii. 6. "I JESUS HAVE SENT MINE ANGEL to testify unto you these things in the churches." Ibid., ver. 16. Jehovah, the true God most high, God of the holy prophets, sent His angel forth, to testify His counsel's near accomplishment: Page 7 But Jesus claims the messenger His angel, and sent forth by him, That all the churches may revere In Jesus the true God supreme. "And thou child shalt be called the prophet of THE HIGHEST, for thou shalt GO BEFORE the FACE of the LORD to PREPARE HIS WAYS." Luke i. 76. "Behold, I send my messenger BEFORE THY FACE, to PREPARE THY WAY before thee." Matt. xi. 10. The prophet of the Lord most high, Was sent before his face, With tidings of Jehovah nigh, And to prepare his ways: And every messenger of his Rejoices to proclaim, Jesus the great Jehovah is! Bow all to Jesus' name! "Many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the LORD THEIR GOD: and he shall go before HIM." Luke i. 16, 17. "HE that cometh AFTER ME is mightier than I, c." Matt. iii. 11. Forerunner of the Lord their God, Who Jesus's forerunner came, Did he not publish it abroad, That Jesus is with God the same? The God of Israel is but One, The Father whole is in his Son. Page 8 Jesus, the true Jehovah, Lord Of heaven and earth I thee adore! From thee the ministerial word Receives its soul-converting power; And all thy people testify Our Saviour is the Lord most high! "I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by THE LORD THEIR GOD." Hosea i. 7. The voice of God the Father sounds Salvation to our sinful race: His grace above our sin abounds, His glory shines in Jesus' face, And by the Person of the Son The Father makes salvation known.

Saved by the Son, the Lord our God Jehovah's fellow we proclaim, Who washes us in his own blood, To us declares his Father's name, His nature pure, his love imparts, With all his fulness to our hearts. "Behold I send MY messenger before THY face, to prepare THY way before THEE." Matt. xi. 10. "Behold, I send MY messenger, to prepare the way before ME." Mal. iii. 1. A personal distinction see Betwixt the Father and the Son! Yet is the filial Deity With the paternal Godhead One: A different Person we confess Jesus whom all his saints admire, Whom all his host celestial praise, One and the same with God the Sire. Page 9 The Persons unconfus'd abide, The Godhead undivided lives: The wisdom hid from learned pride To babes and little ones he gives; Jehovah who in Jesus dwells His whole divinity imparts, To souls prepar'd his Son reveals, And sends his Spirit into our hearts. "They TEMPTED and provoked the MOST HIGH GOD." Ps. lxxviii. 56. "Neither let us TEMPT CHRIST, as some of them also tempted." 1 Cor. x. 9. Who tempted Christ, the faithless race Tempted, and anger'd the Most High: And still we in the wilderness His Spirit grieve, his wrath defy, Jehovah's fellow who disown, And would the filial God dethrone. But give us thro' thy Spirit's power, Jesus, aright to call thee Lord, Thee, the One sovereign God t' adore, Thy Father's uncreated Word, The second Person of the Three Who was from all eternity. "He that hath the bride, is THE BRIDEGROOM." John iii. 29. "Thy Maker is thine HUSBAND, the LORD OF HOSTS is his name." Isa. liv. 5. Bridegroom of his church, and head, And husband is the Lord, By the universe he made Acknowledg'd and ador'd, Page 10 The One God for ever blest, Supreme, omnipotent I AM, God made flesh, and manifest On earth in Jesus' name.

Different from the Father then Is Christ another God? No: Jehovah dwelt with men, And bought us by his blood: Christ the true Jehovah was, And is, and shall be evermore: God expiring on a cross Let earth and heaven adore. "The LORD (Heb., Jehovah) is my SHEPHERD." Ps. xxiii. 1. "There shall be one fold, and ONE SHEPHERD." John x. 16. One God Jehovah is the Son, In union with his Father one, One shepherd he, the great the good, Who dearly bought us with his blood: The sheep we of his pasture are, His people and peculiar care; And all the plenitude divine In Jesus is for ever mine. "Thomas answered and said, MY LORD and MY GOD!" John xx. 28. Jesus, my Lord, my God, The God supreme thou art, The Lord of hosts, whose precious blood Is sprinkled on my heart: Jehovah is thy name, And thro' thy blood applied, Convinc'd, and certified I am There is no God beside. Page 11 Soon as thy Spirit shows That precious blood of thine, The happy, pardon'd sinner knows It is the blood divine: But only he who feels "My Saviour died for me," Is sure that all the Godhead dwells Eternally in thee. "Of whom as concerning the flesh CHRIST came, who is over all GOD BLESSED FOR EVER. Amen." Rom. ix. 5. The Saviour by men And angels confest, Our God we maintain Eternally blest: Jehovah by nature In glory supreme, Th' Almighty Creator We worship in him. A fountain of bliss He freely o'erflows, And all that he is On sinners bestows: His Spirit's the river Of raptures unknown, For ever and ever Deriv'd from his throne. "Through the righteousness of OUR GOD and Saviour JESUS CHRIST." 2 Pet. i. 1. Thro' the perfect righteousness Of our God and Saviour here, Thro' his merits we possess Precious faith in hearts sincere, Justice now is satisfied, God's appeas'd, for God hath died. Page 12 Jesus Christ, the good the just, True, eternal God supreme, We in his obedience trust, Gain the grace obtain'd by him; Peace he purchas'd on the tree, Faith for all mankind, and me. "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of our GREAT GOD and Saviour JESUS CHRIST." Titus ii. 13.

We wait for the returning Of our great God and Saviour, Our dying God Who by his blood Procur'd his Father's favour: Jesus, the true Jehovah, The man to sinners given, Triumphant here Shall soon appear, And take us up to heaven. With glorious pomp descending To crown our expectation, Him we shall see, And shout 'Tis he, The God of our salvation! The God from everlasting, Almighty to deliver, Around his throne Our songs shall own The God that reigns for ever. "GOD was IN CHRIST reconciling the world to HIMSELF." 2 Cor. v. 19. Page 13 God was in Christ, th' eternal Sire Reveal'd in his eternal Son, Jehovah did on earth expire, For every soul of man t' atone: The One Almighty God supreme, Jehovah lavish of his blood Pour'd out th' inestimable stream, And reconcil'd the world to God. The One, true, only God most high, Agent at once and patient was: As man he did for sinners die, As God redeem'd us by his cross: Jesus the general debt hath paid, God in the Person of the Son Amends to God the Father made, For Son and Father are but One. Father in Jesus reconcil'd, My Father if thro' him thou art, Acknowledge thine unconscious child, And hear his Spirit in my heart: One of the dear distinguish'd race For whom thou cam'st in Christ from heaven, I languish for thy gospel-grace, I long to know my sins forgiven. Thy Godhead whole was in thy Son, When Jesus pray'd, and gasp'd, and died: The precious ransom was laid down; 'Tis finish'd; I am justified! The Spirit of faith applies the word, And cries thy new-born child to thee, Hail holy, holy, holy Lord, One glorious God in Persons Three. "I and my Father ARE ONE." John x. 30. Page 14 A wonderful plurality In the true God by faith we see, Who hear the record of the Son "I and my Father are but one;" In different Persons we proclaim One God eternally the same.

Father and Son in nature join, Each Person is alike divine: Alike by heaven and earth ador'd, Thy Spirit makes the glorious third: Co-equal, co-eternal Three, Shew thyself One, great God, in me. "I am in the Father, and the Father IN ME." John xiv. 11. Jesus, the truth we own, That thou art God alone, God incomprehensible, Fulness of the Deity, Thou dost in the Father dwell, All the Father dwells in thee. The attributes divine Are all both his and thine: God in thee thy saints adore, Here, while on thy throne above, Thou art wisdom, truth, and power, Thou art light, and life, and love. "We are ambassadors for CHRIST, as tho' God did BESEECH you by us. We PRAY you in CHRIST'S STEAD be ye reconciled to GOD." 1 Cor. v. 20. God, the offended God most high, Ambassadors to rebels sends: His messengers his place supply, And Jesus begs us to be friends: Page 15 Us in the stead of Christ they pray, Us in the stead of God intreat, To cast our arms our sins away, And find forgiveness at his feet. O God in Christ, thine embassy, And proffer'd mercy we embrace, And gladly reconcil'd to thee, Thy condescending goodness praise: Poor debtors by our Lord's request A full acquittance we receive, And criminals with pardon blest, We at our judge's instance live. "We are in him that is true, even in his SON JESUS CHRIST: THIS IS THE TRUE GOD and eternal life." 1 John v. 20. This, this is the true God supreme, Jesus in whom by faith we dwell; This is eternal life; in him The beatific joy we feel: With him into our hearts is given Th' essential happiness of heaven. Soon as in Christ we truly are, We see the Father in the Son, His pure unsinning nature share; And know that God and Christ are One, 'Till faith's perfection we receive, And fill'd with God for ever live. "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, and not after CHRIST: for IN HIM GODHEAD BODILY." Col. ii. 8, 9. True, absolute divinity, Jesus, we dare ascribe to thee,

Page 16 Which vain philosophy denies, And baffles us with glozing lies, Thy glorious deity blasphemes With Arian or Socinian dreams, To cast the weak believers down, And rob the children of their crown. But grounded on thy written word, We worship our Almighty Lord: In thee, whom thy own Spirit reveals, The fulness of the Godhead dwells: Thy person really divine, Thy body is Jehovah's shrine, The whole substantial Deity Resides eternally in thee. "THE WORD WAS GOD." John i. 1. The Word was independent God, God uncreated and supreme: All things from him their fountain flow'd, Whate'er was made, was made by him: When heaven and earth began to be, The glorious absolute I AM, He was from all eternity To all eternity the same. "Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER." Isa. ix. 6. Jesus, thou art the mighty God, The Child and Son on us bestow'd, Jehovah born on earth, in thee The everlasting Sire we see, And all thy church triumphant sings The Prince of Peace, the King of kings. Page 17 Thou art the co-eternal Son, In substance with thy Father One, In Person different we proclaim, In power and majesty the same, For him in thee we magnify, And thee in him, the Lord most high. No vain distinction we confess Betwixt a greater God and less; No inequality there is, But his are thine, and thine are his, And thee we on thy Father's seat One glorious God for ever greet. "This is the name whereby he shall be called JEHOVAH our Righteousness." Jer. xxiii. 6. Jesus our righteousness Jehovah we confess: Very man of very man, Him who bought us with his blood, We and all his church maintain Very God of very God. Jesus, Jehovah, hear, And what thou art appear! By a faithless world denied, Fulness of the Deity, Is there any God beside? Answer for thyself in me. "The LORD ALONE shall be EXALTED in that day: and the IDOLS he shall utterly abolish." Isa. ii. 17, 18. To destroy idolatry, God was manifest below; God we in our Saviour see, None beside himself we know:

Page 18 Christ the con-substantial Son, Worship'd by his heavenly quire, Him we magnify alone, One with his eternal Sire. No inferior god we praise, No dependent deity: The whole Godhead we confess Resident, O Christ, in thee: Praise divine whoe'er allow, Worship to a creature given, To thine only name we bow, Sovereign Lord of earth and heaven. Jesus, call to mind thy word Standing as the mountains fast, All idolatry abhorr'd O abolish it at last; Root it out of every heart All that doth our Lord disown, Then our only Lord thou art High on thine eternal throne. "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the LORD, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the ALMIGHTY." Rev. i. 8. Jesus, the true Jehovah hear! Jehovah's majesty he claims, His attributes, and character, His incommunicable names: "I am the first and last, the LORD, Past, present, and to come am I, Thro' all eternity ador'd, The One Almighty God most high. Page 19 "The source and end of all I am, Which was, and is, and is to come!" The trump doth his approach proclaim, Arise, ye dead, and meet your doom! Arians, behold his glorious face! His face ye shall behold no more, For ever chas'd to your own place, While saints in ceaseless songs adore. "Why callest thou ME GOOD? There is none good but ONE that is GOD." Matt. xix. 17. There is none good but God alone, And Jesus is that only One, One with his Father in the sky, One with Jehovah the most high, One with the Spirit of holiness; A different Person we confess, But not a different God esteem: Goodness itself adore in him! "Then cometh the END, when HE shall deliver up the KINGDOM to GOD, even the FATHER." 1 Cor. xv. 24. "HE shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of HIS KINGDOM there shall be NO END." Luke i. 33. The end of sin and death is near: The man shall then to God resign His kingdom and dominion here, His exercise of grace divine, The kingdom which his Father gave, The delegated power to save. When all his friends are sav'd at last, And all his enemies destroy'd, The Mediator's sway is past, His office and commission void,

Page 20 The man's authority is o'er, And Christ for sinners pleads no more. But Christ the God maintains his throne, No period shall his kingdom see, By nature with his Father One, A King from all eternity, The same Jehovah he remains, And o'er his saints for ever reigns. "When all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the SON also HIMSELF be SUBJECT unto him that put all things under him, that GOD may be all in all." 1 Cor. xv. 28. The kingdom he, as man, receives, Christ shall deliver up, as man; But still as God supreme he lives, As God he cannot cease to reign, Cannot be less than the Most High, As God, no more than he can die. His power the interceding Son To his almighty Sire submits, And then upon his Father's throne Jehovah in Jehovah sits, That the One glorious God in Three May all in all for ever be. "It is HE, which is ORDAINED of GOD to be the judge of quick and dead." Acts x. 42. The nature which its power receives Inferior is to that which gives, The human to divine: The man we in our Saviour see Made less than the divinity; But both in Jesus join. Page 21 Jesus as God we magnify, Jesus the same with the Most High: For God who did ordain The Son, his character express, To judge the world in righteousness, Will judge us IN that man! Ordain'd the Godhead cannot be; But cloth'd in our humanity He shall from heaven come down, And every prostrate soul adore The fulness of almighty power Jehovah in his Son. For this alone on earth we wait, With glorious pomp and solemn state To see the Lord descend Great arbiter of all mankind, And in the judge our brother find, Our advocate and friend. "Him GOD raised up, and SHEWED HIM openly to us who did eat, c." Acts x. 40. "After these things JESUS SHEWED HIMSELF again to his disciples." John xxi. 1. Of Christ the Son of man The Father doth dispose, And whom he rais'd to life again He to his followers shows: But Jesus doth the same; And sprinkling us with blood, To all believers in his name He shows himself, as God. In mystic unity With his almighty Sire, He shows himself alive to me, My longing heart's desire;

Page 22 He manifests his grace, He makes his mercy known; And now I see in Jesu's face That God and he are One. "GOD so LOVED the world, that he GAVE his only begotten Son." John iii. 16. "CHRIST also LOVED the church, and GAVE HIMSELF for it." Eph. v. 25. The Father full of love unknown Gave to the world his only Son; Full of the same mysterious love The Son forsook his throne above, And shew'd his willingness to save, When for the church himself he gave. Whom the paternal grace bestow'd, He gave himself both man and God, Assum'd our flesh, and stoop'd to die, That all might own the Lord most high, And praise the giver and the given, The only God come down from heaven. God over all we bless thy name, Thy glorious majesty proclaim, Jehovah God in Jesus see, Whose sacred blood distain'd the tree, That every ransom'd soul may find Thy death the life of all mankind. "Forgiving one another, even as GOD for CHRIST'S SAKE hath FORGIVEN you." Eph. iv. 32. "Forgiving one another, even as CHRIST FORGAVE you." Col. iii. 13. Who can forgive but God alone, The One great God of earth and heaven? And for the sake of Christ his Son He hath indeed their sins forgiven Page 23 Who have by faith his Son confest God over all for ever blest. Equal to the Most High he lives, The same authority exerts, Who sin in his own right forgives, And sprinkles all his people's hearts, And numbers with the saints above The objects of his bleeding love. Jesus, on me thy mercy show, That I thy Godhead may proclaim: Power to forgive thou hadst below; And now as yesterday the same, Thou canst a guilty soul release, And save, and bid me go in peace. Wherefore in me reveal the grace, Which present sure salvation brings; So shall I with thy people praise The Lord of hosts, the King of kings, The pard'ning God, th' Almighty Son Return'd to thine eternal throne. "I came down from heaven, NOT to do MY OWN WILL, but the WILL of HIM that SENT ME." John vi. 38. "There came a leper and worshipped him, saying, LORD, if THOU WILT, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus said, I WILL, be thou clean." Matt. viii. 2.

Not his own will, as man, to do, From heaven the world's Redeemer came: But as th' eternal God and true, His and his Father's is the same: The Son we as his Sire adore, The glorious co-eternal Son; In will, in nature, and in power, The sender and the sent are One. Page 24 Lord over all, I at thy feet Expect thy sovereign will to know: The word of pard'ning grace repeat, And touch, and make me white as snow: I cannot doubt thy power to heal; Bid all my filthiness depart, Speak the almighty word I WILL, And purify this leprous heart. "And now, LORD, grant that signs and wonders may be done by the NAME OF THY HOLY CHILD JESUS." Acts xiv. 29, 30. The mighty deeds in Jesus' name By his eternal Father done, Jesus himself perform'd the same, By power immediately his own; And all his works are done by him In unity with God supreme. The virtue to his servants given From him its only fountain flow'd: They by the power of Christ in heaven On earth stupendous wonders show'd, But told who wrought the miracles, "Jesus, the Christ, thy body heals." Jesus, the mightier works of grace Which still we do in thy great name, For these we render thee the praise, Their heavenly author's power proclaim, And cry to each recover'd soul, "'Tis Christ himself that makes thee whole." "To SIT on my right-hand and on my left, IS NOT MINE TO GIVE, but (it shall be given) to them for whom it is prepared of MY FATHER." Matt. xx. 23. Acts ix. 34. Page 25 The kingdom is not thine to give Except to saints by grace prepar'd, Who all thy Father's words receive, Who thee and him alike regard, Thy passion to the end endure, And make the prize thro' sufferings sure. Who strive resisting unto blood, To thee by thy great Father given, On them is by thyself bestow'd The purest happiness of heaven, The bliss supreme, the full reward, The joy of their triumphant Lord. Thrones I appoint to you my friends, Your purchas'd crowns to you I give, In extasies that never end Partakers of my glory live; Who on my cross rejoic'd to die, Your seats are ready in the sky.

The sharers of my victory, Made perfect, and thro' sufferings meet, Myself will grant to sit with me: Come up at my right-hand to sit; Your warfare's past, your work is done: Come up to my eternal throne. "To US there is but ONE GOD, THE FATHER." 1 Cor. viii. 6. "MY LORD, and MY GOD." John xx. 28. One God to us, there is but One: The Father comprehends the Son, Alike eternally ador'd; And Jesus is our God and Lord: One God the Father well we name The nature, which in Christ the same, The same we in the Spirit see, One glorious God in Persons Three. Page 26 One Lord in Jesus we admire, But not exclusive of his Sire: One God we in the Father own, But not exclusive of his Son: That Spirit, our Almighty Lord, We worship as the glorious Third; Yet not three lords or gods confess, But One in Three for ever bless. "Call no man your father upon earth, for ONE is YOUR FATHER which is in heaven." Matt. xxiii. 9. Our heavenly Father is but One With that paternity In which the Father and the Son And Holy Ghost agree: Each Person of the Tri-une God, May his own creature claim, For each impress'd the earthy clod With his own awful name. Father, and Son, and Spirit join'd In the creating plan, Each is the Maker of mankind, And doth his work sustain: The Spirit breath'd his life into Our animated clay, And he begets our souls anew, And seals us to that day. Our common head in Christ we see, Our heavenly Adam praise, The Father of eternity, And all the faithful race: His promise to the conqueror is, Who the good fight hath won, "His God, I will be always his, And he shall be my son." Page 27 Children of God who Christ receive, Our privilege we know, The resurrection's children live, The Saviour's seed below: "I am the resurrection, I The life eternal am!" And never shall his children die Who trust in Jesus' name.

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost We equal homage pay, And each in whom we wholly trust, Implicitly obey: Ourselves intirely we resign To the great Three in One, And worship properly divine Perform to God alone. "Neither be ye called masters, for ONE is YOUR MASTER, even CHRIST (John iii. 13.) which is in heaven." Matt. xxiii. 10. Our heavenly Master is but One, And Jesus is his name: But Jesus the eternal Son Is with his Sire the same: The Spirit's glorious plenitude Resides in Christ ador'd: Each Person doth the Three include, And each we call our Lord. Taught by our Father in the skies, Taught by our Saviour there, Taught by the Holy Ghost, and wise We to salvation are: Our God is One in Persons Three, Our teacher is but One, Who calls us up with joy to see Jehovah on his throne. Page 28 "MY FATHER is GREATER than I." John xiv. 28. The Father greater than the Son Made flesh for us, we gladly own; But less than God as man, As touching his divinity, Equal to the Most High is he Whom heaven cannot contain. Whose spirits bow to Jesus' name, Nor less nor greater, but the same In dignity and power Jehovah manifest we praise, And shall in everlasting lays With all his saints adore! "The HEAD of Christ is GOD." 1 Cor. xi. 3. The partner of our flesh and blood, As man, inferior is to God: The lower part of Christ, the heel Was bruis'd, and did our sorrows feel: But though he would his life resign, His part superior is divine, And doth, beyond the reach of pain, God over all for ever reign. Great fountain-head of Deity, Father of Christ, we worship thee, Thy sovereign majesty maintain As greater than the Son of man: Yet thee, O Christ, of God the Son, In essence, substance, nature One, Thy Father's equal we proclaim With God eternally the same. "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels which are in heaven, neither THE SON, but THE FATHER." Mark xiii. 32. Page 29 A child on us bestow'd, Not all at once he knew, But the supreme, omniscient God, As man, in wisdom grew: As man, he knew not when Himself the judge should come, And summon all the sons of men To meet their instant doom.

Yet we, with Peter, own The Saviour's sovereign right, Thou all things knowst, O God alone In wisdom infinite: And when to me thou art Discover'd from above, I too shall answer from my heart Thou knowst that thee I love. "No man hath SEEN GOD at any time." John i. 18. "Philip saith unto him, Lord SHEW US THE FATHER ... hast thou not SEEN ME, Philip? He that hath seen ME hath seen THE FATHER." Ibid., xiv. 8, 9. He that hath seen th' Incarnate Son, All which of Christ was visible, Hath seen the Father too, and known (What flesh and blood could not reveal) Jehovah is in Jesus' name, With God substantially the same. He hath beheld the person join'd To God invisible, supreme, He doth the Father's nature find The plenitude divine in him, Who hath to all his followers shown "I and my Father are but one." Page 30 Jesus, thou Son of the Most High, To me, ev'n me vouchsafe the grace To see by faith's internal eye, Jehovah shining in thy face: Explain the mystery to my heart, And bid me then in peace depart. So when thou dost with clouds appear In all thy dazling majesty, These eyes of flesh shall see thee here, Without a veil the Godhead see, My forehead shall thy name receive, And glorious I for ever live. "But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that HE IS EXCEPTED which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be SUBDUED UNTO HIM." 1 Cor. xv. 27. "We look for THE SAVIOUR the Lord JESUS CHRIST ... who is ABLE even to SUBDUE ALL THINGS TO HIMSELF." Phil. iii. 20, 21. All things unto Christ, as man, By another are subdued; But we stedfastly maintain He that other is, as God: He can, as Jehovah's Son, All things to himself subdue: Jesus sitting on his throne Makes our universe anew. Jesus, Son of the Most High, Power omnipotent is thine; Lord of all in earth and sky; Vindicate thy right divine; Conquer this rebellious heart: Then I know, in love renew'd, Thou, my present Saviour, art The One, true, eternal God. Page 31 "Denying OUR ONLY MASTER and LORD JESUS CHRIST." (Gr.) Jude 4.

Jesus hath bought us with his blood, And he that bought us is the Lord, The governor supreme, the God Jehovah, by his works ador'd, The only governor supreme, The only God we praise in him. His true divinity, denied By an ungrateful world, we own, Who feel the blood divine applied, And sav'd by grace thro' faith alone, Shall soon behold his open face, And our eternal Saviour praise. "Unto HIM that is able to PRESENT you faultless before the PRESENCE of HIS GLORY ... to the ONLY WISE GOD our SAVIOUR." Jude 24, 25. "That HE might PRESENT it to HIMSELF a glorious church." Eph. v. 27. The only wise Almighty God Is able by his grace Us to present, in love renew'd Before his glorious face: And he whose promises are sure, Returning for his bride, Will to himself present us pure, And wholly sanctified. Jesus, who bought us with his blood, Who makes us pure in heart, The only wise, Almighty God, Our Saviour we assert: Page 32 The glorious presence is his own; And when the sight is given, Beholding Jesus on his throne, We reach our highest heaven. "The dispensation of the grace of GOD, which is given me to you-ward: how that BY REVELATION HE made known to me the mystery." Eph. iii. 2, 3. "I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but BY THE REVELATION of JESUS CHRIST." Gal. i. 12. God made known the mystery, The gospel of his grace, Call'd the messenger to see His God in Jesus' face: God by revelation gave The power to preach a dying God, Ministerial power to save Believers in his blood. "I receiv'd it not of man, Of man I was not taught; Jesus did himself explain The grace for sinners bought: Christ did to my heart reveal The welcome news of sin forgiven, News of joy unspeakable, And peace 'twixt earth and heaven." Every chosen instrument Ordain'd by the Most High, Every minister is sent Of Christ to testify: Lo, we preach his name abroad; Know all the truth in us reveal'd, Sinners by the blood of God Receive your pardon seal'd. Page 33 "THOU, even THOU ONLY KNOWEST the HEARTS of all the children of men." 1 Kings viii. 39. "All the churches shall know that I AM HE which searcheth the reins and HEARTS." Rev. ii. 23.

Thou, even thou alone, O God by nature One, Infinite in wisdom art, Jesus to thy Father join'd Searcher of the reins and heart, Knowst the hearts of all mankind. By this thy churches know Their God reveal'd below, Sure that thou, O Christ, art he, God supreme in glorious grace; Fulness of the Deity Thee thy saints for ever praise. "Exceeding great and precious promises, that by these you might be PARTAKERS of the DIVINE NATURE." 2 Pet. i. 4. "We are made PARTAKERS of CHRIST, if we hold fast, c." Heb. iii. 14. All who partake of Christ, partake The nature properly divine Of him, who humbled for our sake, Us with himself vouchsaf'd to join; And in his single person shew'd The substance both of man and God. The precious promises in him Are all contain'd and verified; And fashion'd like the God supreme, Whoe'er in Christ by faith abide, Page 34 Th' essential holiness they share, The image of the heavenly bear. Jesus the Lord, thy nature pure To us, as capable, impart, And thus our hallow'd hearts assure That thou the true Jehovah art, And wilt thro' death our leader be, Our God thro' all eternity. "I have sworn by MYSELF ... that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear." Isa. xlv. 23. Jehovah by himself hath sworn, (Jehovah in th' eternal Son) All flesh shall to their God return, And stand arraign'd at Jesus' throne: When the descending judge they see, Before my dread tribunal bow'd, All shall at last acknowledge me, And every tongue confess to God. He could not by a greater swear; For Jesus is the Lord most high: And we who trust his oath, prepare To meet our Saviour in the sky: We then around his throne shall sing, Improvers of th' angelic strains, Jesus the saints' triumphant King Th' Almighty God for ever reigns! "When HE ascended up on high HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." Eph. iv. 8. "The chariots of GOD are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the LORD is among them .... THOU hast ascended on high, THOU hast led captivity captive." Ps. lxviii. 17, 18. Page 35 Jesus, Jehovah, God, Thou art gone up on high, Amidst the angelic multitude Thy chariots thro' the sky; In majesty supreme, Absolute God confest, Captive thyself has taken them Who all mankind opprest.

Thou hast in triumph led Our enemies and thine, And more than Conqueror display'd Th' omnipotence divine: We see them all before Thy bleeding cross subdued, And prostrate at thy feet adore The One eternal God. "This is the blood of the TESTAMENT, which GOD hath enjoined you." Heb. ix. 20. "Where a TESTAMENT is, there must also of necessity be the DEATH of the TESTATOR." Ibid., ver. 16. God did the testament injoin, Which God confirm'd with his own blood: The man who did his life resign, Was proper, true, eternal God, God indivisible, and One, Jehovah's fellow, and his Son. The nature, both of God and man In Jesus' single person meet, Never to be disjoin'd again; So strict the union and compleat, That what of one is said, is true, If spoken of the other too. "THOU wast slain, and hast redeemed us to GOD by THY BLOOD." Rev. v. 9. Page 36 Very man, and very God, Thou hast bought us with thy blood: Two distinguish'd natures we In thy single person see, God and man in thee alone Mix inseparably one. How could God for sinners die? How could man the pardon buy? When thy human nature bled, Then the blood divine was shed, Blood of him who was in thee God from all eternity. Thou its infinite desert Didst to thy own death impart, Didst impart to thy own blood All its prevalence with God: Such a Saviour us became, Such we worship in the Lamb! "In that day saith THE LORD (ver. 10) they shall look on ME whom they have PIERCED." Zech. xii. 4. "They shall look on HIM whom they have PIERCED." John xix. 37. In that day, Jehovah saith, Sinners shall look on me, Me behold with eyes of faith Transfixt on Calvary: Jews who nail'd me to the wood, Who pierc'd my feet, and hands, and side, Literally shall see their God, Jehovah crucified! Guilty, guilty we confess Their most atrocious deed, We by our own wickedness Have caus'd our God to bleed: Page 37 Who Jehovah's fellow was, The man with God for ever one, We have fasten'd to the cross The Father's only Son.

But thou hast fulfil'd thy word, We see thy body torn, Look on our expiring Lord, And fall and deeply mourn, Hear thine interceding cries, (Father, my murtherers forgive!) Quicken'd by the sound we rise, And by thy death we live. Yet we still indulge our tears O'er our Redeemer slain, Where that slaughter'd Lamb appears We must thro' life remain, Pierc'd with sacred sympathy Our sorrows mingling with thy blood, 'Till the Lord from heaven we see, And all fly up to God. "That ye may be sincere, and without offence, 'till the DAY of CHRIST." Phil. i. 10. "Looking for and hasting to the coming of the DAY of GOD." 2 Pet. iii. 12. The day of Christ, the day of God We humbly hope with joy to see, Wash'd in the sanctifying blood Of an expiring deity: Who did for us his life resign, There is no other God but One, For all the plenitude divine Resides in the Incarnate Son. Spotless, sincere, without offence O may we to his day remain, Who trust the blood of God to cleanse Our souls from every sinful stain: Page 38 Lord, we believe the promise sure: The purchas'd Comforter impart, Apply thy blood to make us pure, To keep us pure in life and heart. Then let us see that day supreme, When none the Godhead shall deny, Thy sovereign majesty blaspheme, Or count thee less than the Most High; When all who thee their God believe, Who here thy last appearing love Shall thy consummate joy receive, And see thy glorious face above. "Behold the LORD GOD will COME ... HIS REWARD IS WITH HIM." Isa. xl. 10. "Behold I COME quickly, and MY REWARD IS WITH ME." Rev. xxii. 12. Lo the great God will come from high, And with him bring his own reward; Jesus declares Jehovah nigh, The sovereign God, th' Almighty Lord! Lo, from above I quickly come, And bring my own reward with me, And seal the universal doom, Which stands to all eternity. True witness of thy swift return, Thy faithful record we receive, And long on angels' wings upborn To meet, and see thy face, and live: Come quickly, Lord, our hearts reply, According to thy word descend Jehovah glorious from the sky, And bring the joy that ne'er shall end.

Page 39 "That which is BORN OF THE SPIRIT." John iii. 6. "That which is BORN of GOD." (Gr.) 1 John v. 4. The self-same act of grace divine Which in our second birth we prove, Great God, is an effect of thine, And of thy Spirit from above: His constituted witnesses To whom he makes the mystery known, One nature we in both confess: God and the Spirit are but One. Come, Holy Ghost, thou God most high, Thou everlasting Spirit come, Our faithful hearts to certify, And consecrate thine earthly home: When thou hast seal'd thy blest abode, Jehovah's mansion we shall be, A temple of the Tri-une God; For all the Godhead is in thee. "The HOLY GHOST said, Separate ME Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I HAVE CALLED them." Acts xiii. 2. "No man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is CALLED of GOD." Heb. v. 4. Page 40 Call'd by the Holy Ghost alone The labourers are called by God, One with the Father and the Son The Spirit hath their grace bestow'd, Their ministerial honour given, And sent the messengers of heaven. None but th' Almighty Spirit can Set his own officers apart, His chosen instruments ordain, And sinners by their word convert, While taught of him they testify, That Spirit is the Lord most high. "PRAY ye therefore the LORD OF THE HARVEST that HE will SEND FORTH labourers into his harvest." Matt. ix. 38. "So they being SENT FORTH BY THE HOLY GHOST." Acts xiii. 4. Holy Ghost, regard our prayers, Third of the glorious Three, Send forth faithful labourers To gather souls for thee: Sovereign, everlasting Lord, The harvest is intirely thine, Thine the preachers of the word, The messengers divine. Move their hearts, and more stir up Salvation to proclaim, Bold on every mountain-top To shout in Jesus' name, Tidings of great joy to tell, Of peace obtain'd, and sin forgiven; Then, thy word of grace to seal, O God, come down from heaven. Page 41 "It was revealed unto him BY THE HOLY GHOST, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ." Luke ii. 16. "And he BLESSED GOD, and said, LORD, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to THY WORD." Ibid., ver. 28.

Holy Ghost, apply thy word And promise to my heart, Tell me I shall see the Lord, Before I hence depart: When my faith the Christ hath seen, Creator of that inward eye, Thee I shall acknowledge then, The Lord and God most high. Spirit of faith, reveal in me The sure-approaching grace, Then I shall the deity Of my inspirer praise, Bless my God for ever blest, Glory in salvation given, Late obtain the promis'd rest, And go in peace to heaven. "He (the SPIRIT of truth) dwelleth with you, and shall be IN YOU." John xiv. 17. "GOD is IN YOU of a truth." 1 Cor. xiv. 25. The Holy Ghost in part we know, For with us he resides, Our whole of good to him we owe Whom by his grace he guides: He doth our virtuous thoughts inspire, The evil he averts, And every seed of good desire He planted in our hearts. Page 42 He, whom the world cannot receive, But fight against his power, Will come, we stedfastly believe, In his appointed hour: He now the future grace reveals, Bespeaks his mean abode; And in us when the Spirit dwells, We all are fill'd with God. "At that day ye shall know, that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you." John xiv. 20. Whene'er our day of Pentecost Is fully come, we surely know The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Our God, is manifest below: The Son doth in the Father dwell, The Father in his Son imparts His Spirit of joy unspeakable, And lives for ever in our hearts. Our hearts are then convinc'd indeed That Christ is with the Father One; The Spirit that doth from both proceed, Attests the co-eternal Son; The Spirit of truth and holiness Asserts his own divinity: And then the orthodox confess One glorious God in Persons Three. "All scripture is given by INSPIRATION of GOD." 2 Tim. iii. 16. "Holy men of God spake as they were MOVED BY the HOLY GHOST." 2 Pet. i. 21. Page 43 Spirit of truth, essential God, Who didst thine antient saints inspire, Shed in their hearts thy love abroad, And touch their hallow'd lips with fire, Our God from all eternity, World without end, we worship thee.

Still we believe, Almighty Lord, Whose presence fills both earth and heaven, The meaning of the written word Is still by inspiration given, Thou only dost thyself explain The secret mind of God to man. Come then, divine interpreter, The scriptures to our hearts apply, And taught by thee we God revere, Him in Three Persons magnify, In each the Tri-une God adore, Who was, and is for evermore. "It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all TAUGHT OF GOD." John vi. 45. "Not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the HOLY GHOST TEACHETH." 1 Cor. ii. 13. Fulfil'd in us we daily own The antient gospel prophecy, Taught by the Holy Ghost alone, We all are taught by God most high; 'Tis he instructs us thro' his grace, Whate'er the instruments employ'd, God only claims his people's praise: Our teacher is indwelling God. Come Holy Ghost, thyself reveal, Spirit of grace and wisdom come, Thy own divine instructions seal, And make our hearts thy constant home: Page 44 When thou art in thy saints below, We serve thee as the church above, And all things have, and all things know, Divinely taught our God to love. "Why hath Satan filled thine heart to LYE to the HOLY GHOST." Acts v. 3. "Thou hast not LYED unto man but unto GOD." Ibid., ver. 4. Who to the Holy Spirit lyed, He lyed to God, and not to men; To God that doth in saints reside, Not in proud infidels profane, Who his divinity blaspheme, And lye against their God supreme. But we have by his unction known The truth which only God reveals: There is no other God but One, Who in us by his Spirit dwells, And teaches all his witnesses One God in Persons Three to praise. "And hereby we know that HE abideth in us, by THE SPIRIT which he hath given us." 1 John v. 24. God, who did the Spirit bestow That in our hearts resides, God supreme, hereby we know, Himself in us abides: God eternally ador'd His Spirit in us is the Most High, Glorious, universal Lord, That fills both earth and sky. Who the Holy Ghost receive, Th' indwelling Comforter, We his deity believe, And we alone declare:

Page 45 When he speaks the promise seal'd In saints his permanent abode, With Jehovah's Spirit fill'd, We all are fill'd with God. "The TEMPLE of GOD is holy, which temple are YE." 1 Cor. iii. 16. "Know ye not, that YOUR BODIES are the TEMPLE of the HOLY GHOST?" 1 Cor. vi. 19. When the Spirit thou bestow'st, Our indwelling Comforter, Temples of the Holy Ghost, We, O God, thy temples are: Full of confidence divine Feels our heart its heavenly guest: Thou art come into thy shrine: Here, O God, for ever rest. By his residence below In this weak corporeal frame, Thee we with thy Spirit know Co-essentially the same: With thy Son and Spirit One, Father, bid thy temples rise, Shine, when time its course hath run, Blaze eternal in the skies. "Then was Jesus LED up BY THE SPIRIT, to be TEMPTED." Matt. iv. 1. "OUR FATHER which art in heaven ... LEAD us not into TEMPTATION." Luke xi. 2, 4. Who into temptation led God's well-beloved Son, Born to bruise the serpent's head And tread the tempter down? Page 46 Who of final victory Did the occasion sure afford? Third of the mysterious Three, That Spirit was the Lord. Born again, and led by him, We are the sons of God, Own his deity supreme, And publish him abroad, One with God the Son adore, One with God the Father praise, Glorious theme, when time is o'er, Of everlasting lays. "Blessed be GOD, even the GOD of all COMFORT." 2 Cor. i. 3. God of all consolation, The Holy Ghost thou art, Thy secret inspiration Hath told it to my heart: The blessing I inherit, Thro' Jesus' prayer bestow'd, The Comforter, the Spirit, The true eternal God. With God the Son and Saviour, With God the Father One, The tokens of his favour Thou mak'st to sinners known, An antipast of heaven Thou dost in me reveal, Attest my sins forgiven, And my salvation seal. Th' indubitable witness Of thy own deity, Thou giv'st my soul its fitness Thy glorious face to see:

Page 47 Thy comforts, gifts, and graces My largest thoughts transcend, And challenge all my praises, When faith in sight shall end. "What man knoweth the things of a man, save the SPIRIT of a man which is IN HIM? EVEN so the things of GOD knoweth none but the SPIRIT OF GOD." 1 Cor. ii. 11. The things and purposes of man Are seen and understood by none; None, none without him can explain His secret thoughts and mind unknown: The spirit which in the man doth dwell, Which is the man, alone can tell. The things invisible, divine, Search'd out by none but God can be: Too short or man's or angel's line To sound the depths of deity: The Spirit which in our God doth dwell, Which is our God, alone can tell. None of a different nature can A far superior nature know: Incomprehensible to man Is God, unless himself he show, Unless his heavenly Spirit impart His light to man's infernal heart. Thou co-essential Spirit, shine, The things of God in us reveal: The things of God are only thine, Jehovah indivisible, God with the Father and the Son, In perfect Unity, come down. Page 48 Save us for thy own nature's sake, And teach by thy anointing grace, Possession of thy creature take, We then the mind of Christ possess, We have the true divinity, The whole of God reveal'd in thee. "The THINGS OF GOD knoweth no man." 1 Cor. ii. 11. "But the natural man receiveth not the THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD." Ibid., ver. 14. 'Twixt God and his own Spirit we No difference in the scriptures see, In Personality alone Distinct, in mind and nature One: The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Ador'd by his celestial host, As taught by his unerring word, We worship, One Almighty Lord. But God the Spirit's things are known By reason's feeble light to none, Though foolish man would comprehend What must his nature's powers transcend; 'Till God an understanding give, He cannot savingly believe His God, or spiritually see The Three in One, and One in Three. "Thou shalt not TEMPT the LORD thy GOD." Deut. vi. 16, and Matt. iv. 7. "How is it that ye have agreed to TEMPT the SPIRIT of the LORD?" Acts v. 9.

Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God: The Lord thy God that Spirit is, Who hath on man his grace bestow'd; Whose tender mercies never cease; Page 49 But still he doth with sinners stay, Though griev'd and tempted every day. Transgressors of his righteous law By sin offend his glorious eyes: By sin we urge him to withdraw, And force his ling'ring wrath to rise, 'Till from his face he vows t' expel, And leave us to our choice in hell. Yet spare us, O thou God supreme, Before we fill our measure up, Thy true divinity blaspheme, And quench with thee our latest hope: Thy Godhead on the rebels prove, And conquer us at last by love. Thy living law of love reveal, And write it in our inward parts, Thou God of love unsearchable, Set up thy kingdom in our hearts, Thy kingdom in our hearts maintain, And we shall never sin again. "The LORD said, MY SPIRIT shall not always strive with man." Gen. vi. 3. Jehovah's Spirit of purest love Waited in Noah's days, And long the God of patience strove With that rebellious race: The same Almighty Spirit strives, And help to us imparts, Sufficient to reform our lives, And change our sinful hearts. But if, disdaining to receive, His proffer'd aid we slight, His goodness obstinately grieve, And do our God despite; Page 50 His patience will not always last To those that brave his power: And when our gracious day is past, He strives with us no more. But let us to our God return Most pitiful, most high, For mercy at his footstool mourn, For farther respite cry: Stay, thou insulted Spirit, stay, And strive again with me, Nor cast a wretched soul away That has rejected thee.

Though late, I yield me to thy will, With free, intire consent; Thy pleasure, Lord, in me fulfil A pardon'd penitent: So shall I publish thee abroad Jehovah from above, The only, true, eternal God Of everlasting love. "If I with the FINGER of GOD cast out devils." Luke xi. 20. "If I with the SPIRIT of GOD cast out devils." Matt. xii. 28. The finger of our God most high, Th' immediate power, the Spirit, expel'd, And forc'd the trembling fiends to fly, And all the hosts of darkness quell'd, The Spirit's act, his people we The act of God himself confess, And One eternal Deity In Three co-equal Persons bless. "The hand of the LORD GOD fell there upon me .... And HE put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of my head, and the SPIRIT lifted me up." Ezek. viii. 1, 3. Page 51 Jehovah God and Lord Of all in earth and sky Arrests the servant of his word, And lifts him up on high: The Spirit lifts him up: The Lord of hosts is he, Sole object of our faith and hope, God from eternity. He is our God alone, All others we disclaim, One with the Father and the Son, Essentially the same: He his whole church shall raise To glorious joys above, And bless us in that heavenly place, And crown us with his love. "LORD, thou art GOD which hast made heaven and earth .... WHO by the mouth of thy servant DAVID hast said, c." Acts iv. 24, 25. "This scripture must have needs been fulfilled which the HOLY GHOST by the mouth of DAVID spake." Acts i. 16. The Lord who did by David speak, Our sovereign Lord we own, Refuge in him alone we seek, We trust in him alone: The heavens and earth, and sea, he made, And all which they contain, And doth by his continual aid His universe sustain. Inspirer of the sacred book, His own authentic word, The Holy Ghost by David spoke Our sovereign God and Lord: Page 52 His true divinity exprest, His majesty and power, By all the saints of God confest, We worship evermore. "The LORD GOD of Israel ... spake by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began." Luke i. 68-70. "Well SPAKE the HOLY GHOST by Esaias the prophet, c." Acts xxviii. 25.

Israel's Lord and God supreme Spake by his messengers, Mov'd to testify of him The old enraptur'd seers: Prophets, since the world began, The Holy Ghost inspir'd to tell His divinity to man, And all his mind reveal. Well the Holy Ghost, the Lord, Did by Esaias say, Israel would reject his word, His counsel disobey: All alike reject him now, Who Israel's God the Spirit deny, Will not to Jehovah bow, Or own him the Most High. "Whither shall I go from THY SPIRIT? Or whither shall I go from thy presence? If I ascend into heaven, THOU art there, c." Ps. cxxxix. 7. Whither shall a creature run? From Jehovah's Spirit fly? How Jehovah's presence shun, Screen'd from his all-seeing eye? Page 53 Holy Ghost, before thy face, Where shall I myself conceal? Thou art God in every place, God incomprehensible. If to heaven I take my flight, With beatitude unknown, Filling all the realms of light, There thou sittest on thy throne! If to hell I could retire, Gloomy pit of endless pains, There is the consuming fire, There almighty vengeance reigns. If the morning's wings I gain, Fly to earth's remotest bound, Could I hid from thee remain, In a world of waters drown'd? Leaving lands and seas behind, Could I the omniscient leave? There thy quicker hand would find, There arrest thy fugitive. Cover'd by the darkest shade, Should I hope to lurk unknown, By a sudden light bewray'd, By an uncreated Sun, Naked at the noon of night Should I not to thee appear, Forc'd t' acknowledge in thy sight God is light, and God is here! "He shall be called the SON of the HIGHEST. ver. 35. The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the HIGHEST shall overshadow thee, THEREFORE also that holy thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of GOD." Luke i. 32. Page 54 Why is he call'd, that man ador'd, The Son of the Most High? The Holy Ghost, th' Almighty Lord Descended from the sky: The Holy Ghost our God supreme We hence are bold to own, For Christ, as man begot by him Is God's eternal Son.

Come, thou eternal Spirit of God, God over all confest, Diffuse thy heavenly love abroad In a poor sinner's breast: Then shall I constantly maintain That thou the highest art, When Jesus is conceiv'd again In my believing heart. "Mine eyes have seen the LORD of HOSTS.... Also I heard the voice of the LORD saying, Go and tell this people, c." Isa. vi. 5-8. "Well SPAKE THE HOLY GHOST by Esaias the prophet, saying, Go unto this, c." Acts xxviii. 26, 27. What by the Lord of hosts was said, Was by the Holy Ghost declar'd: In majesty supreme array'd The true Jehovah we regard, And absolute divinity Ascribe, eternal Spirit, to thee. We that amidst a people dwell Of harden'd hearts, and lips unclean, Who see, and hear, yet will not feel, Or know that blasphemy is sin, But still thy deity3 deny, And speak against the Lord most high. 3Ori., "dei y"; a misprint. Page 55 Their eyes against the light they close, Their ears they stop against the word, Their own felicity oppose Opposing thee th' Almighty Lord, The Holy Ghost came down from heaven To certify their sins forgiven. The Spirit of an healthful mind Freely they might in thee receive, The cure of all their evils find; But will not own their God and live, 'Till in their sins they die unheal'd, And find their sure damnation seal'd. "There is none GOOD but ONE, that is GOD." Matt. xix. 17. For One all-perfect God we plead, One only God is good indeed; Good with a goodness of his own, There is, there can be only One, The God who built both earth and sky, The Lord of hosts, the Lord most high. But we thy mind have understood Declaring that "thy Spirit is good:" The sovereign Lord of hosts is he, Father, in unity with thee, In unity with Christ thy Son, The Holy Ghost is God alone. Good incommunicated, pure, Which must eternally endure, Essential, absolute, divine, Spirit of holiness, is thine: Goodness itself, we know, thou art, Reveal'd with Jesus to our heart. Ps. cxliii. 10. "Thy Spirit is good" (Heb., "goodness"). Page 56 "The Spirit OF God." Matt. iii. 16.

The spirit of man is man indeed, The Spirit of God is truly God: No other than himself we need Who hath on man himself bestow'd, To us the Holy Ghost imparts, And thus resides in all our hearts. Who have with faith divine believ'd, In every age, and every place Have, like the saints of old, receiv'd God in the Spirit of his grace, And surely felt, and fully known God and his Spirit for ever One. "The Spirit OF the LORD (Jehovah, Heb.) CAME mightily upon him." Judg. xv. 14. "The LORD (Jehovah) DEPARTED from him." Ibid., xvi. 20. The Spirit of Jehovah came, And brought the mighty man his might: But when consenting to his shame, He did to the good Spirit despite, Jehovah did from him depart, And left a weak divided heart. Spirit of God, Jehovah come, And rest with all thy power on me, Enter and keep thy constant home, Spirit of love and purity, So shall I worthily adore, And force thee to depart no more. "GOD also bearing them witness with ... gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his OWN will." Heb. ii. 4. Page 57 If subject to another's will The Spirit we confess, The everlasting Spirit still Nor greater is, nor less: Who from the Son and Father came, He is on us bestow'd, Another Person, yet the same Supreme Almighty God. Father and Son for ever join On sinners to confer Blessings miraculous divine, With God the Comforter: The Holy Ghost distributes still, And showers his blessings down, According to Jehovah's will, According to his own. "The Spirit itself maketh intercession for us." Rom. viii. 26. Helper of our infirmity The Spirit vouchsafes for us to plead: One Person in the glorious Three Doth with another interceed: The Spirit is sent, pour'd out, and given Both by the Father and the Son, And God come down from God in heaven Prepares, and lifts us to his throne. Page 58 "And GOD said, Let us make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness." Gen. i. 26. Hail Father, Son, and Spirit, great Before the birth of time, Inthron'd in everlasting state A mystical plurality We in the Godhead own, Adoring One in Persons Three, And Three in nature One.

From thee our being we receive The creatures of thy grace, And rais'd out of the earth we live To sing our Maker's praise: Thy powerful, wise, and loving mind Did our creation plan, And all the glorious Persons join'd To form thy fav'rite, man. Again thou didst, in council met, Thy ruin'd work restore, Establish'd in our first estate To forfeit it no more: And when we rise in love renew'd, Our souls resemble thee, An image of the Tri-une God To all eternity. Page 59 "And the LORD GOD said, Behold the man is become like ONE OF US." Gen. iii. 22. Lo, like one of us the man Is daringly become, To himself with effort vain Doth deity assume, Claims a knowledge of his own, And boldly with his Maker vies: Is Jehovah wise alone? The creature too is wise. Absolute, as One he were Of the mysterious4 Three, Fallen man aspires to share Our independency: Now he good and evil knows, As all by right divine were his, All unto himself he owes, His own sufficient bliss. "And the LORD said, Let US go down, and there confound their language." Gen. xi. 6, 7. Let us, saith the Lord, descend, Let us their designs confound, Bring them to a shameful end, Cast their castles to the ground; Rebels, who the Three in One Dare with learned pride deny, By a Babel of their own Confident to reach the sky. Be it so, thou glorious God, Three in One, and One in Three, Able to abase the proud Come with all thy majesty: 4Ori., "misterious."

Page 60 Men who Arian blasphemies Dare the scripture-doctrine name Let their dire delusion cease, Sink to hell from whence it came. "I heard the voice of the LORD saying, Whom shall I send, and who shall go for US?" Isa. vi. 8. Who Jehovah's mind hath known? Who his counsellor can be? God requires advice of none, One inexplicable Three, He himself his council makes, All the glorious Persons join, Each the Deity partakes, Each is properly divine. "And it came to pass, when GOD caused me to wander from my father's house." (Heb., God they caused me to wander.) Gen. xx. 13. God, th' eternal Persons Three They caused him to rove: They have now excited me To seek the land above: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, My God thro' life's tempestuous wave, Guide me to that heavenly coast, And there for ever save. "There GOD appeared unto him." (Heb., God they appeared, or were revealed to him.) Gen. xxxv. 6. God were manifested there, There reveal'd to man they were! Jacob saw the mystic Three, One eternal Deity. Page 61 We by faith behold him too, Whom the seers and patriarchs knew, Hail Jehovah on his throne, One in Three, and Three in One. Thee we sing, Almighty Lord, By the church on earth ador'd, Worship'd by the heavenly host, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Glorious, Tri-une God of love, Shew us all, thy face above, Then we shall our voices raise, Triumph in thine endless praise. "What nation is there so great, that hath God so nigh unto them?" (Heb., God who are so nigh.) Deut. iv. 7. What nation is so high As we that Christ hath known, And in Jehovah glorify Th' eternal Three in One? Lord of the heavenly powers We see him always here: Who have so great a God as ours, A God that are so near! Our souls the Father keeps, And will not quit his hold; And Israel's shepherd never sleeps, But watches o'er his fold; 'Till time and nature ends, With us the Spirit abides, And the whole Trinity attends, Our everlasting guides. "Doubtless there is a God that judgeth the earth." (Heb., a God who are judging in the earth.) Ps. lviii. 12.5 5Wesley cites the verse location in the Hebrew text; in the AV this would be Ps. 58:11. Page 62

There is a God we truly call Three Persons equally divine, Who in the earth are judging all, Who doth to each his doom assign, Vengeance to those that slight his grace, Reward to those that seek his face. The Father sits and judges right, The judge of all is Christ his Son, The Spirit of resistless might Casts earthly powers and kingdoms down, When as a judging Spirit he comes, And breathes, and Antichrist consumes. "Even like Israel, whom God went to redeem." (Heb., God they went.) 2 Sam. vii. 23. God they went, the Persons Three His Israel to redeem; Still the glorious Trinity In majesty supreme, List'ning to our plaintive groan, Afflicted with our misery, Comes to make his wonders known, And set his people free. God hath Israel visited; His Son the Father gave; Jesus came, and freely shed His blood our souls to save: Comes the Spirit into our hearts, Our guilty burthen to remove, Peace the Comforter imparts And liberty and love. "If I be a MASTER, (Heb., MASTERS) where is my fear?" Mal. i. 6. Our Lord the Father is, the Son Our Lord, our Lord the Spirit we bless, Equal in majesty, and One Great God in Persons Three confess: Page 63 Each self-existing Person lives The fear of every faithful soul, And the same praise from all receives, Long as eternal ages roll. "Remember thy CREATOR (Heb., CREATORS) in the days of thy youth." Eccles. xii. 1. Remember thy Creators, God In Persons Three confest, Who rais'd thee up a breathing clod, And with his name imprest: The Persons Three in council join'd To make his earth-born son; And, stampt with his immortal mind, He claims thee for his own. He challenges thy youthful days Who did thy being give: Created for his only praise, For him rejoice to live; Transcript of holiness divine, The Tri-une God proclaim, And spirit, and soul, and flesh resign To glorify his name. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the HOLY ONES is understanding." Prov. ix. 10. The wisdom own'd by all thy sons, To me, O God, impart, The knowledge of the Holy Ones, The understanding heart: Thy name, O holy Father, tell To one who would believe, To me thy holy Son reveal, Thy Holy Spirit give. Page 64

'Tis life, eternal life to know The heavenly Persons mine; Father, and Son, and Spirit, bestow That precious faith divine: A Trinity in Unity My soul shall then adore, And love, and praise, and worship thee Jehovah evermore. "And whereas THEY commanded to leave the stump of the tree, roots, c." Dan. iv. 26. "Leave the stump and roots behind" A heavenly watcher cried! But by their command we find The number multiplied: One pronounces the decree; A watcher, and an Holy One, Watchers, Holy Ones is he, Who his strange work hath done. God from hence, the God supreme We one and many know: Every act that flows from him Doth from Three Persons flow: Spoke by Three is every word: And prostrate at thy throne of grace, Holy, holy, holy Lord, The Tri-une God we praise. "The most high GOD gave to Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour." Dan. v. 18. "And THEY took his glory from him." Ibid., ver. 20. His kingdom was the gift of God, His glory the Most High bestow'd; And the proud monarch to rebuke, They, they from him the glory took, Page 65 The Three inexplicably One Concur'd to cast him from his throne. Our God, whom One in Three we praise, Can still the arrogant abase, Can vindicate his truth denied By all the towering sons of pride, And bring them down with beasts to dwell, Or level with the fiends of hell. "By the WORD of the LORD were the heavens made, and all the hosts of them by the breath (Heb., SPIRIT) of his mouth." Ps. xxxiii. 6.6 Jehovah the Almighty Lord, Father of Jesus Christ, and ours, The heavens created by his word, And by his breath the heavenly powers: And that essential Spirit divine Whom Jesus breathes into his own, Doth in the new creation join With God and his eternal Son. To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Be equal adoration given, Maker of the celestial host, Maker of the new earth and heaven! Joint-Authors of our glorious bliss We soon shall sing the Three in One, And God beholding as he is For ever shout around his throne. "And now the LORD GOD, and his SPIRIT hath sent ME." Isa. xlviii. 16. Jehovah is but One Eternal God and true: The Father sent the Son, His Spirit sent him too, 6Ori., "xxiii. 6"; a misprint.

Page 66 The everlasting Spirit fill'd, And Jesus our salvation seal'd. Senders and sent we praise, With equal thanks approve Th' economy of grace, The Tri-une GOD of love, And humbly prostrated before The One Thrice holy God, adore! "Seek ye out of the book of the Lord and read ... for MY mouth it hath commanded, and HIS SPIRIT it hath gathered them." Isa. xxxiv. 16. Read all and understand Th' essential Three in One, My mouth hath utter'd the command, His Spirit it hath done, Hath gather'd by his call The vultures to their prey, To execute my wrath on all In that vindictive day. "The LORD bless thee and keep thee: The LORD make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace." Num. vi. 24, c. Jehovah, God the Father, bless, And thy own work defend, With mercy's outstretch'd arms embrace, And keep us to the end: Preserve the creatures of thy love, By providential care Conducted to the realms above To sing thy goodness there. Page 67 Jehovah, God the Son, reveal The brightness of thy face, And all thy pardon'd people fill With plenitude of grace: Shine forth with all the deity Which dwells in thee alone, And lift us up thy face to see On thine eternal throne. Jehovah, God the Spirit, shine, Father and Son to show, With bliss ineffable divine Our ravish'd hearts o'erflow; Sure earnest of the happiness Which human thought transcends, Be thou our everlasting peace, When grace in glory ends. Thy blessing, grace, and peace we claim, Great God in Persons Three, The incommunicable name Ascribing now to thee: We soon shall join that harping host, And sing, thy saints among, To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost The new, eternal song. "Baptizing them in the name of the FATHER, and of the SON, and of the HOLY GHOST." Matt. xxviii. 19. Baptiz'd into One only name The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One nature we in Three proclaim, One God for our salvation trust: One God eternally abides, One undivided Trinity, And the whole Deity resides In each of the mysterious Three. Page 68

Each Person properly divine, Co-equal in majestic power, With all his heavenly host we join The great Jehovah to adore: And worshipping the Tri-une God In confidence of humble love, We soon shall reach his bright abode, And see his open face above. "The LORD direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of CHRIST." 2 Thess. iii. 5. Come Holy Ghost, thou Lord most high, The veil of unbelief remove, And in us Abba Father cry, And lead our hearts into his love; Our hearts into his patience lead Whose blood hath wash'd our sins away, And perfected like Christ our head, Seal and preserve us to that day. "The grace of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, and the love of GOD, and the communion of the HOLY GHOST be with you all." 2 Cor. xiii. 14. The grace of Jesus Christ our Lord Thro' all eternity ador'd, The Father's love to us be given, The Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, His endless benefits impart, And dwell in every faithful heart. Blest be the sacred Three in One! We make Jehovah's glory known, Their equal majesty confess; No Person greater is, or less, None after other, or before, But the same God for evermore. Page 69 "There are THREE that bear record in heaven, the FATHER, the WORD, and the HOLY GHOST: and these THREE are ONE." 1 John v. 7. The heavenly Three their record bear, The Father, Word, and Holy Ghost, Each doth to us of Christ declare, That, Lord of the celestial host, He came by water and by blood, The very and eternal God. The Father owns him from the skies "This is my well-beloved Son!" Still of himself he testifies, The faithful witness on his throne, Jehovah's attributes and names Jesus, the Lord Almighty claims. The Spirit testifies of him, And gives us faithfully to call Jesus, the Lord and God supreme, Whose streaming blood hath ransom'd all: That blood the Spirit of Christ applies, That blood of God who never dies. The Father, Son, and Spirit agree To make the truth of Godhead known: The heavenly witnesses are Three, In will and testimony One; One God in nature and in power World without end his saints adore. "One cried unto another, and said; HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS the LORD OF HOSTS." Isa. vi. 3. See also Rev. iv. 8.

Hail holy, holy, holy Lord, Whom One in Three we know, By all thy heavenly host ador'd, By all thy church below! Page 70 One undivided Trinity With triumph we proclaim: Thy universe is full of thee, And speaks thy glorious name. Thee, holy Father, we confess, Thee, holy Son adore, Thee, Spirit of true holiness, We worship evermore: Thine incommunicable right, Almighty God, receive, Which angel-quires and saints in light And saints embodied give. Three Persons equally divine We magnify and love: And both the quires ere7 long shall join To sing thy praise above: Hail holy, holy, holy Lord, (Our heavenly song shall be) Supreme, essential One ador'd In co-eternal Three. 7Ori., "e'er," but clearly used in sense of "before." Page 71 "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the Spirit of his mouth." Ps. xxxiii. 6. "I am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretcheth abroad the heavens ALONE, that spreadeth forth the earth BY MYSELF." Isa. xliv. 24.8 The Lord, and the eternal Word We our Creator see, The Spirit of his mouth concur'd And gave the worlds to be: The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, God in Three Persons One, Created that celestial host, And made our earth alone. "I by myself the heavens expand, And spread the earth abroad!" All things sprang forth at the command Of One Almighty God: That One Almighty God, thou art The glorious Trinity; Make known the secret to my heart Reveal thy love in me. 8Ori., "xliv. 28"; a misprint. Page 72 "The Lord our God is ONE JEHOVAH." Deut. vi. 4. "Thou whose name ALONE is JEHOVAH art the most high over all the earth." Ps. lxxxiii. 18. "This is the name whereby he shall be called JEHOVAH our righteousness." Jer. xxiii. 6. "The Lord JEHOVAH took me, the SPIRIT lifted me up, c." Ezek. viii. 1, 3. The Lord our God is only One, One is Jehovah the most high: Jehovah is his name alone, Who made and fills both earth and sky: Jehovah is the Saviour's name; Jehovah is the Spirit's too: And Three essentially the same Is the eternal God and true.

The name peculiarly divine Which doth his nature best express, To the Three Persons we assign, And each substantial God confess: Rivals of his celestial host We triumph here like those above, And Father, Son, and Holy Ghost The One supreme Jehovah love. "The same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon him." Rom. x. 12. "A Saviour which is Christ the LORD." Luke ii. 11. "Who hath known the mind of the LORD?" Rom. xi. 34. "Who hath directed the SPIRIT of the Lord?" Isa. xl. 13. Page 73 The Trinity in Unity Is by the church ador'd, Which each of the mysterious Three Acknowledges for Lord; We all the Lord our Father bless, The Lord our Saviour own, The Lord the Spirit we confess, For ever Three in One. "The multitude glorified the God of Israel." Matt. xv. 31. "The children of Israel shall be turned to the Lord THEIR GOD: and he shall go before HIM." Luke i. 16, 17. "The SPIRIT of the Lord spake by me ... the GOD of Israel said." 2 Sam. xxiii. 2, 3. Israel the Father calls his son, And Jesus is the Lord their God, The Spirit claims them for his own, On whom his prophets he bestow'd, The Spirit who by David spoke The word he never will revoke. Each Person of the mystic Three The God of Israel we adore, As was, and is, and still shall be, When time and nature are no more: The Tri-une God we then shall praise In glorious, everlasting lays. "I myself serve the LAW of GOD." Rom. vii. 25. "Fulfil the LAW of CHRIST." Gal. vi. 2. "The LAW of the Spirit of life." Rom. viii. 2. "There is ONE LAWGIVER who is able to save and to destroy." James iv. 12. Page 74 We the Father's law receive, The law of Christ fulfil, Keep the Spirit's law, and live According to his will; Live to make the mystery known, And testify, from sin set free, God our lawgiver is One, But One in Persons Three.

Shall we then with sin comply, Against our God rebel, His authority defy Who can destroy in hell? He that doth to sin give way, The glorious Trinity offends, Treasures up against that day The wrath which never ends. "Thou shalt not TEMPT the LORD thy God." Deut. vi. 16. "Neither let us TEMPT CHRIST." 1 Cor. x. 9. "How is it that ye have agreed together to TEMPT the SPIRIT of the Lord?" Acts v. 9. They tempt the Lord most high, Whoe'er transgress his word The Father and the Son they try, And Spirit of the Lord; They 'gainst the One in Three Rebellious arms employ, Provoke their God to jealousy, And tempt him to destroy. "Who hath known the MIND of the LORD?" 1 Cor. ii. 16. "We have the MIND of CHRIST." Ibid. "He that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the MIND of the SPIRIT." Rom. viii. 27. Page 75 Who know the thing by God design'd To us the mind of Christ is known, To us is known the Spirit's mind One with the Father and the Son, The counsel of the Trinity Infallibly reveal'd we have, And witness that the heavenly Three Are ready all mankind to save. "This is the WILL of GOD." 1 Thess. iv. 3. "The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldst know HIS WILL." Acts xxii. 14. "Prophecy came not in old time by the WILL of man; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the HOLY GHOST." 2 Pet. i. 21. The will of God is Jesus' will Electing Paul, his Lord to see, To know his counsel, and fulfil A glorious, gospel ministry: The will of God the Spirit's is, Who mov'd the holy men of old, By them proclaim'd approaching peace, And all good things in Christ foretold. Father, and Son, and Spirit join To make the joyful secret known, The love unsearchable, divine, Of One in Three, and Three in One: This is the counsel of his grace, That him we here by faith should see, Should see above his glorious face, And gaze to all eternity. "The grace of GOD given unto me by the effectual working of HIS POWER." Eph. iii. 7. Page 76 "That the POWER of CHRIST may rest upon me." 2 Cor. xii. 9. "Signs and wonders by the POWER of the SPIRIT of God." Rom. xv. 19.

God whom we in Christ adore, Wonders wrought by Jesus' name; By his own effectual power Christ himself perform'd the same: The same miracles of grace By the Holy Ghost were done; Teaching us our God to praise, One in Three and Three in One. Holy, holy, holy Lord, One Almighty God most high, One in Persons Three ador'd, Thee we laud and magnify; Still the Tri-une God we praise, 'Till around thy throne we meet, Heighten the seraphic lays, Make the harmony compleat. "The mystery ... made manifest according to the commandment of the EVERLASTING GOD." Rom. xvi. 25, 26. "I am the FIRST and the LAST." Rev. xxii. 13. "... who through the EVERLASTING SPIRIT." Heb. ix. 14. The everlasting Father bless, The everlasting God commend, The everlasting Spirit confess, Who neither can begin nor end, Equal in power and majesty One God reveal'd in Persons Three. Not Three eternals we adore, But One eternal God most high, Him whom the angels fall before, And holy, holy, holy cry, Page 77 Him who to man his name imparts, And lives in all believing hearts. "He that sent me is TRUE." John vii. 28. "These things saith he that is TRUE, he that hath the key of David." Rev. iii. 7. "The Spirit is TRUTH." 1 John v. 6. Who sent the Son is true; True is the Son that came; True is the Spirit too, Conferr'd in Jesus' name: The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Essential truth we own, And prostrate with his heavenly host Adore the Three in One. "Who shall not fear thee, O LORD? For THOU ONLY art HOLY." Rev. xv. 4. "Ye denied THE HOLY ONE." Acts iii. 14. "Ye have an unction from THE HOLY ONE." 1 John ii. 20. Holy is our God alone, God the Father and the Son, Holy we the Spirit esteem God omnipotent, supreme, Manifest in Persons Three God through all eternity. In each Person we revere God's authentic character; Praise in each the Holy One Bright on his eternal throne, The great God we glorify, Bless the name of the Most High. Page 78

God by nature we confess Pure essential holiness: God inhabiting the heart All our holiness thou art, Thou art here to sinners given, All our holiness in heaven. "Do not I fill heaven and earth saith the LORD?" Jer. xxiii. 24. "The fulness of HIM that filleth all in all." Eph. i. 22. "Whither shall I go then from thy SPIRIT? If I go up into heaven, THOU art there; if I go down into hell, THOU art there also." Ps. cxxxix. 7, 8. Father, thy glory we confess, Accept the sacrifice of praise By all thy people given; Thy presence to our faith appears, Thy beatific presence chears, And fills both earth and heaven. Supreme in majesty and power Thee, Jesus, thee thy saints adore, Jehovah's fellow call, Thy heavenly Person we esteem The glorious plenitude of him That filleth all in all. Spirit of uncreated light, How shall we 'scape thy piercing sight, Or whither shall we go? The God of vengeance or of love, Thy presence fills the realms above, And the abyss below. Great omnipresent One in Three, Absorb'd in thine immensity Page 79 Thy worshippers receive, Beyond the bounds of time and space Contemplating thy blissful face Eternally to live. "Love the LORD thy GOD, for HE is thy LIFE." Deut. xxx. 20. "When CHRIST who is OUR LIFE shall appear." Col. iii. 4. "The SPIRIT is LIFE." Rom. viii. 10. He is our life, the Lord our God: Our Father's love we find, Who being graciously bestow'd On us, and all mankind: Jesus our life alike we own, Our life eternal here Conceal'd, and by the world unknown; But he shall soon appear. The Spirit is life, we know and feel Who life to us imparts; And God doth in Three Persons dwell For ever in our hearts: Our life is One: a Trinity In Unity we love, And gladly die from earth, to see His face unveil'd above. "The LORD he is GOD, it is HE that hath MADE US." Ps. c. 3. "By HIM were ALL THINGS MADE." John i. 3. "The SPIRIT of GOD hath MADE me." Job xxxiii. 4. By the Father, and the Son, And blessed Spirit made, God in Persons Three we own, And hang upon his aid:

Page 80 Reason asks, how can it be? But who by simple faith embrace, We shall know the mystery, And see him face to face. "The Father RAISETH up the dead, and QUICKNETH them." John v. 21. "Even so the SON QUICKNETH whom he will." Ibid. "It is the SPIRIT that QUICKNETH." Ibid., vi. 63. Fountain of life divine The Three in One we know, The Father, Son, and Spirit join To quicken all below; Each Person of the Three The breath of lives inspires; And then we rise our God to see, And do what he requires. Spiritual life t' impart The Father's power we feel; The Son doth the same power exert And quickens whom he will: The quick'ning Spirit stirs Infusing his own grace; And the whole Trinity concurs, Me from the dead to raise. "They shall all be TAUGHT of GOD." John vi. 45. "Neither was I TAUGHT it but by the revelation of JESUS CHRIST." Gal. i. 12. "The Comforter the Holy SPIRIT will TEACH you all things." John xiv. 26. God our teacher we embrace; He his will to man reveals: Every lesson of his grace Father, Son, and Spirit seals: Page 81 Truth the God of truth imparts; Our instructor from above Writes his law upon our hearts, Law of liberty and love. He makes known the mystery, Gives us simply to believe Three are One, and One is Three, Whom our faithful hearts receive; There he sheds his love abroad; Then beyond conception blest, Image of the Tri-une God, We like him for ever rest. "Truly our FELLOWSHIP is with the FATHER." 1 John i. 3. "And with his Son JESUS CHRIST." Ibid. "The FELLOWSHIP of the HOLY GHOST be with you all." 2 Cor. xiii. 14. Our fellowship, who Christ profess, Is with the Father and the Son, And Spirit of true holiness; In Person Three, in nature One, One undivided God we know, And walk, and talk with God below. Who intimate communion feel With God our guide and bosom-friend, He doth to us the secret tell Which reason could not comprehend, And Three unutterably One He dwells in all his saints alone. "GOD is IN YOU of a truth." 1 Cor. xiv. 25. "CHRIST is IN YOU." 2 Cor. xiii. 5. "The SPIRIT dwelleth with you, and shall be IN YOU." John xiv. 17.

Page 82 God of a truth in us resides, Christ is in us both felt and known, In us the Holy Ghost abides: Not three indwelling gods, but One, One true essential deity For ever One in Persons Three. "GOD hath said, I will DWELL in them." 2 Cor. vi. 16. "That CHRIST may DWELL in your hearts." Eph. iii. 17. "His SPIRIT that DWELLETH in you." Rom. viii. 11. The Father, Son, and Spirit dwell By faith in all his saints below, And then in love unspeakable The glorious Trinity we know Created after God to shine, Fill'd with the plenitude divine. "GOD shall REVEAL even this unto you." Phil. iii. 15. "Neither was I taught it but by the REVELATION of JESUS CHRIST." Gal. i. 12. "It was REVEALED unto him by the HOLY GHOST." Luke ii. 26. God the Father his whole will Doth to sinful man reveal, God the co-eternal Son Makes his heavenly counsel known, All the mysteries of grace God the Holy Ghost displays. One revealing Deity We confess in Persons Three, Page 83 Guide of his inlighten'd sons, Teacher of the simple ones: Lord, to thee our souls we bow Speak thy servants hearken now! "GOD who SPAKE unto the fathers by the prophets." Heb. i. 1. "Ye seek a proof of CHRIST SPEAKING in me." 2 Cor. xiii. 3. "It is not ye that SPEAK but the HOLY GHOST." Mark xiii. 11. If of the truth a proof ye seek (The truth ye never can explain) Hear Father, Son, and Spirit speak One God oracular in man; Thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Son, Thus saith the Spirit to all that hear, The One in Three, and Three in One Ye saints, eternally revere. "GOD hath both RAISED UP the Lord, and will also raise us up by his OWN POWER." 1 Cor. vi. 14. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I WILL RAISE IT UP." John ii. 19. "Christ ... being put to death in the flesh, but QUICKENED by the SPIRIT." 1 Pet. iii. 18. The breathless body of our Lord Which once for sinners bled, The blessed Trinity concur'd To raise it from the dead: The Father did his Son restore Uplifting from the grave, And by his own effectual power Life to himself he gave. Page 84

The Spirit quick'ning him, again His soul and body join'd; And lo, in that immortal man The Tri-une God we find: Each of the Three is God alone, The One Almighty Lord, One from eternity, and One World without end ador'd. "I am the LORD thy GOD, which LEADETH thee by the way that thou shouldst go." Isa. xlviii. 17. "He calleth his own sheep by name, and LEADETH them out." John x. 3. "As many as are LED by the SPIRIT of GOD, they are the sons of God." Rom. viii. 14. O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Conductor of the blood-bought host, The faithful Israelites indeed, Us, if aright thy name we know, Lead by the way that we should go, In all the paths of justice lead. Stay with us, Lord, our guide unseen; Shepherd of souls, in pastures green Bring forth thy flock, and feed, and guard; Spirit of love the chosen race Prepare with all thy hallowing grace, And lead us to a full reward. "Our sufficiency is of GOD, who hath MADE us able MINISTERS." 2 Cor. iii. 5, 6. "JESUS CHRIST ... counted me faithful, PUTTING me into the MINISTRY." 1 Tim. i. 12. "Take heed therefore to all the flock, over which the HOLY GHOST hath MADE you OVERSEERS." Acts v. 28. Page 85 The Father and the Son And Spirit are but One, Essence One in Persons Three, God appoints his servants here, Gives us our sufficiency, Makes the able minister. The Father we proclaim, Sent forth in Jesus' name; Us our heavenly Father sent; Christ our dispensation gave, Furnish'd every instrument Dear immortal souls to save. The Spirit his love imparts, And consecrates our hearts, Makes us overlook the sheep; Sure he will our toil repay, Kept by him his church we keep, Watch and teach them night and day. We teach the mystery Of God both One and Three: God himself both Three and One Our divine commission seals, Comes in attestation down, In his church for ever dwells. "To them that are SANCTIFIED by GOD the FATHER." Jude 1. "HE that SANCTIFIETH and they who are sanctified are all of one." Heb. ii. 11. "Being SANCTIFIED by the HOLY GHOST." Rom. xv. 16. The Father and Son And Spirit we praise, Three Persons in One, The God of all grace, Page 86 Whose joint operation The children and heirs By present salvation For glory prepares.

By God sanctified Our Father we love; And Jesus his bride Delights to approve; With blood to besprinkle Believers in him, From every wrinkle His church to redeem. To sanctify those By mercy foreknown, The Comforter flows From Father and Son: Renew'd by the Spirit, In holiness pure, The joy we inherit, And make the prize sure. The merciful God, The hallowing Three Himself hath bestow'd On sinners like me: Our full sanctifier He perfects in one, And raises us higher, And seats on his throne. "It is the same GOD which WORKETH ALL IN ALL." 1 Cor. xii. 16. "CHRIST is ALL, and IN ALL." Col. iii. 11. "But ALL these WORKETH that one and the self-same SPIRIT." 1 Cor. xii. 11. Fulness of energy divine In Father, Son, and Spirit confess! Three Persons in Jehovah join To save, and sanctify, and bless: Page 87 Power appertains to God alone The sovereign, absolute I AM: And God who worketh all is One, In Three eternally the same. All things in all the Father doth; Jesus is all, and all he fills; The Spirit is the same with both, And his own acting power reveals; The Father's works are by the Son Perform'd, and by the Spirit of grace: That One in Three, and Three in One, His people may for ever praise. Page 88 To the tune of: "Father, our hearts we lift." We lift our hearts to thee, Jehovah on thy throne, Co-equal, co-eternal Three In will and nature One: With all the sons of grace We in thy worship join, Plurality of Persons praise, And Unity divine. The Father made of none We bow our souls before, And Christ his uncreated Son With equal zeal adore: Transcending human thought Jehovah's self is he, Incomprehensibly begot From all eternity. The first of Mr. Lampe's Hymns on the Great Festivals. Page 89 God, very God indeed The Holy Ghost, we know, From Son and Father did proceed, And life on man bestow: With Son and Father him Alike we glorify, Jehovah, the true God, supreme O'er all in earth and sky. This glorious Trinity We worship evermore: None less, or greater of the Three, None after or afore: The Persons Three are One; And who by faith embrace, We soon on his triumphant throne Shall see him face to face. To: "Angels speak, let men give ear."

Lord of hosts, we bow before thee God made known Three in One, One in Three adore thee: Far above our comprehending, God of grace, take the praise Never, never ending. Thee the bright harmonious quire Three and One on thy throne Joyfully admire; With triumphant acclamation Night and day thee we pay Threefold adoration. Glorious God, like them we bless thee, God most high magnify, Lord of all confess thee; The second of Mr. Lampe's, c. Page 90 'Till we mount thro' Jesus' merit, There to gaze, there to praise Father, Son, and Spirit. To: "Away with our fears!" Lampe's 3d. While the army above Overwhelm'd by his love The Trinity sings, With their faces inwrapt in their shadowing wings; Holy Father, we cry, Holy Son we reply! Holy Spirit of grace! And extol the Three-One in a rapture of praise! Many gods we disclaim, For the Three are the same, In a manner unknown Three Persons divine inexpressibly One; Who all homage demands From the work of his hands, Re-created to know, And resemble his God manifested below. Their omnipotent Lord By angels ador'd When their being began, And in Eden extol'd by the primitive man; As it was, and as now To the Triad we bow, Men and angels shall fall, And eternally praise the Creator of all. To: "All ye that pass by." Three Persons there are Their record who bear, And Jehovah in heavenly places declare: Page 91 But in Father, and Son, And Spirit made known, The Witnesses Three are essentially One. Full credence we give, And exult to believe What our reason in vain would aspire to conceive: Not against, but above Our reason we prove Three Persons reveal'd in the essence of love. The Father alone Very God will we own, Very God will we worship the Spirit and Son: Each Person is he, Whom believing we see, And Jehovah adore in the wonderful Three. No distinction we find Of will or of mind In the Maker, inspirer, and friend of mankind; But One God we proclaim In nature and name Indivisibly One, and for ever the same. To: "Lamb of God, whose bleeding love." God distinct in Persons Three, In various offices, Father, Son, and Spirit, thee We faithfully confess: Father, God, Jehovah, Lord We call by names to each applied, As by saints on earth ador'd, By angels magnified.

Lord of hosts, upon thy throne, Thy face the prophet view'd, Prais'd a Trinity in One Sublime, Almighty God: Page 92 Still from every saint of thine Accept the adoration given, Glorious majesty divine, Who fillest earth and heaven. To: "Hearts of stone, relent, relent!" Father, Son, and Spirit, hear Thy apostate creature's groan, Languishing to find thee near, Worshipping a God unknown, Light 'till in thy light I see, Know eternal life in thee. Creeds and books can nothing do, Unaccompanied by grace; Grace must form my soul anew, Give me to discern thy face, Bring my faithful heart the power God in Persons Three t' adore. But thou drawst me after thee, But thou dost my heart incline, Helping its infirmity Now to ask the grace divine: Now this unbelief remove, Tell me now that thou art love. Father, manifest thy Son, Son, to me the Father show, Holy Comforter, make known The deep things of God below, Sovereign, Tri-une God, impart All thy fulness to my heart. To: "With pity, Lord, a sinner see." All hail mysterious Trinity! Every Person of the Three In my salvation meets: Page 93 The Father draws me to the Son, Accepts for Jesus' sake alone, And all my sins forgets. The Son his cleansing blood applies, Breaks my heart, and bids me rise A penitent forgiven: The Holy Ghost his witness bears, Numbers me with the royal heirs, And gives a taste of heaven. The Father multiplies my peace, Jesus doth my faith increase, And teaches me to pray; The Spirit purifies my heart, And makes me, Saviour, as thou art, And seals me to thy day. Thus, only thus I surely know God was manifest below The God of pardoning grace, Whom saints in Persons Three admire, Whom I with all that heavenly quire World without end shall praise. To: "Rejoice, the Lord is King." Worship and praise belong To God the Lord most high: Who taught us the new song His name we magnify, The Trinity in One we bless, The Unity in Three confess. Not from our creeds alone The doctrine we receive: Jehovah Three in One, He gives us to believe, Page 94 The God of truth himself imparts, And writes his name upon our hearts.

His Son on us bestow'd The Father hath reveal'd: The Son his Father show'd From mortal eye conceal'd; Th' indwelling Comforter attests That One is Three, in faithful breasts. Thrice holy God, in whom We live, and move, and are, To do thy will we come, Thy glory to declare, By all our converse here to show That God is manifest below. Baptiz'd into thy name, Mysterious One in Three, Our souls and bodies claim A sacrifice to thee: We only live our faith to prove The faith which works by humble love. O that our light may shine, And all our lives express The character divine, The real holiness! Then, then receive us up t' adore The Tri-une God for evermore. To: "Jesus, shew us thy salvation." Fountain of divine compassion, Father of the ransom'd race, Christ, our Saviour and salvation, Spirit of consecrating grace; Page 95 See us prostrated before thee; Co-essential Three in One, Glorious God, our souls adore thee High on thine eternal throne. While we in thy name assemble, Overshadow'd from above, Let us at thy presence tremble, Holy, Tri-une God of love: Father, Son, and Spirit, bless us, Who the true Jehovah art: Plenitude of God in Jesus, Enter every contrite heart. Challenge now thine humble dwelling, O thou high and lofty One, Thy own deity revealing, God in Persons Three come down: Thou, the witnesses in heaven, Dost on earth thy record bear: Shew us here our sins forgiven, Shew us all thy glory there. To: "Happy Magdalen, to whom." Triumph, happy soul, to whom God the heavenly secret tells, Father, Son, and Spirit come, One in Three himself reveals! What from man thou could'st not know, Thou art truly taught of God, When he doth the faith bestow, Wash thee in thy Saviour's blood. Fully certified thou art By that sacred blood applied, He who dwells within thy heart, God, the great Jehovah died: Page 96 Now, and not 'till now thou knowst (Myst'ry learnt by faith alone) Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, God in Persons Three is One. God in Persons Three, appear God to every troubled breast, Show thyself the Comforter, Be the weary sinner's rest: Stranger to thy people's peace, Burthen'd with our sins we groan; Come, that all our griefs may cease, Take possession of thy own.

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Heal thy creature's misery; Thee, the pearl which Adam lost, Give us to recover thee, Give us in pure love renew'd Higher by our fall to rise, Image of the Tri-une God, House of one who fills the skies. To: "Hail the day that sees him rise." Holy, holy, holy Lord, God the Father, and the Word, God the Comforter, receive Blessing more than earth can give! Mixt with those beyond the sky, Chanters to the Lord most high, We our hearts and voices raise, Echoing thine eternal praise. One inexplicably Three, Three in simplest Unity, God, incline thy gracious ear, Us thy lisping creatures hear: Page 97 Thee while dust and ashes sings, Angels shrink within their wings, Prostrate seraphim above Breathe unutterable love. Happy they, who never rest, With thy heavenly presence blest! They the heights of glory see, Sound the depths of deity: Fain with them our souls would vie, Sink as low, and mount as high, Fall o'erwhelm'd with love, or soar, Shout, or silently adore. To: "Hail, Jesus, hail, our great high-priest." Praise to the glorious cause of all (Whom One in Persons Three we call) Be by his every creature given! Worship divine to him be paid, Whose hands the whole creation made, The Tri-une God of earth and heaven. Each Person, absolutely Lord, Exists, by heaven and earth ador'd, The God of Israel's faithful line; Each Person doth the essence claim, The incommunicable name, And all the attributes divine. Jehovah, ere9 the world begun, In God the Father and the Son, And God the Holy Ghost was found; One self-existent Deity, He reigns, when time no more shall be, With everlasting glory crown'd. 9Ori., "e'er," but clearly used in sense of "before." Page 98 To: "Sinners, rejoice, your peace is made." Praise to the glorious Three in One, As was before the world begun, As is by minds angelic paid, By every saint his grace has made, And shall eternally be given By all in earth and all in heaven. Shout to the great Jehovah's praise Ye sons of glory and of grace, One God in Persons Three adore, The same in majesty and power, His suffering and triumphant host Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. To: "Jesus, we hang upon the word."

Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Whom One all-perfect God we own, Restorer of thine image lost, Thy various offices make known, Display, our fallen souls to raise, Thy whole economy of grace. Jehovah in Three Persons, come, And draw, and sprinkle us, and seal Poor guilty, dying worms, in whom Thou dost eternal life reveal, The knowledge of thyself bestow, And all thy glorious goodness show. Soon as our pardon'd hearts believe That thou art pure essential love, The proof we in ourselves receive Of the Three Witnesses above, Sure, as the saints around thy throne, That Father, Word, and Spirit are One. Page 99 O that we now in love renew'd Might blameless in thy sight appear, Wake up in thy similitude, Stampt with the Tri-une character, Flesh, spirit, soul to thee resign, And live, and die entirely thine! To: "Jesus, dear departed Lord." God unsearchable, unknown, Persons Three, but essence One, Thee I gladly would receive, Would thine oracles believe: Searching them by night and day, Here I for instruction stay, Still I read and reason right, Still require a clearer light. Reason can no farther go, Forc'd its own defect to show: God incomprehensible Only can himself reveal: Tri-une majesty divine, Thou into my darkness shine, Now unfold the mystery, Let there now be faith in me. To: "Spirit of truth, descend." A real Unity Which heart can ne'er conceive In the celestial Three His children all believe: In essence, not in figure, One The Persons we adore, Of God the Father, Spirit, Son, And praise him evermore. Page 100 Call'd by a common name The sacred Three we praise, In will and power the same, In majesty and grace; Jehovah whom his hosts surround, An ever warbling quire, The God supreme in each is found, The Deity entire. Thrice holy God, admit Poor worms of earth to join, And at thy mercy-seat Extol the grace divine, The wisdom in a mystery Of love unsearchable, 'Till thou receive us up to see Thy face without a veil. To: "Hail, holy, holy, holy Lord." A thousand oracles divine Their common beams unite, That sinners may with angels join To worship God aright; To praise a Trinity ador'd By all his host above, And One Thrice holy God and Lord Thro' endless ages love.

Triumphant host! They never cease To laud and magnify The Tri-une God of holiness, Whose glory fills the sky; Whose glory to this earth extends, While God himself imparts, And the whole Trinity descends Into our faithful hearts. Page 101 By faith the upper quire we meet, And challenge them to sing Jehovah on his shining seat, Our Maker, God, and King: But God made flesh is wholly ours, And asks a nobler strain, The Father of celestial powers, The friend of earth-born man. Ye seraphs nearest to the throne, With rapturous amaze On us, poor, ransom'd worms look down, For heaven's superior praise: The King whose glorious face ye see, For us his crown resign'd; That fulness of the deity, He died for all mankind! To: "Sinners, obey the gospel-word." The witnesses in heaven ador'd, The Father, Holy Ghost, and Word, One God with all his church we own, In Persons Three for ever One. But 'till our souls are born again, We to the truth assent in vain, By notions right ourselves deceive, And only fancy we believe. The Tri-une God we cannot know, Unless he doth the faith bestow, Faith which removes our mountain-load, And brings us to a pard'ning God: Sure evidence of things unseen, Which swallows up the gulph between, The light of life divine imparts, And forms Jehovah in our hearts. Page 102 O that we all might thus believe, The truth in humble love receive, Author of faith our Saviour find In God the Father of mankind; In both the Holy Spirit know (Who doth where'er he listeth blow) And the whole Trinity receive For ever in our hearts to live! To: "O love divine, how sweet thou art!" Thee, great tremendous deity, Whom Three in One, and One in Three I to the world proclaim, Inspire with purity and peace, And add me to thy witnesses By telling me thy name. Fixt on the Athanasian mound, I still require a firmer ground My sinking faith to bear: I want to feel my soul renew'd In the similitude of God, Jehovah's character. My notions true are notions vain; By them I cannot grace obtain, Or sav'd from sin arise: Knowledge acquir'd by books or creeds My learn'd self-righteous pride it feeds; 'Tis love that edifies.

The truth I seemingly possess, But hold it in unrighteousness Without experience sure: Whoe'er the holy God contains, He must be purg'd from all his stains, A vessel clean and pure. Page 103 Furnish'd with intellectual light, In vain I speak of thee aright, While unreveal'd thou art: That only can suffice for me, The whole mysterious Trinity Inhabiting my heart. Come then, thou Tri-une God unknown, Take full possession of thine own, And keep me ever thine, An heir of bliss, for glory seal'd, A temple of the Lord, and fill'd With all the life divine. To: "Head of thy church triumphant." To God the great Jehovah We render thanks and blessing, His Unity In Persons Three With all his church confessing: Three holy ones we worship With endless adoration Under the same Mysterious name, And sovereign appellation. The same divine perfection Authority and merit Counsel and mind And power we find In Father, Son, and Spirit; To all the Three ascribing The same eternal essence, Wisdom and grace, And holiness, And truth and omnipresence. Page 104 The undivided Godhead, The Trinity united, The Three in One Doth all alone, With his own work delighted: The glorious Tri-une author Of every operation With life supplies, And sanctifies, And leads us to salvation. To: "Ye servants of God." Omnipotent God, Eternal I AM, We publish abroad Thy wonderful name, We worship before thee Who reignest alone, And prostrate adore thee Three Persons in One. Jehovah intire In each we confess, And gladly admire Thy mystical grace, The Persons agreeing To make and renew, To give us our being, And ransom us too. Begotten again, And born from above, We join in the plan Of infinite love; Son, Father, and Spirit Our Saviour we see, And glory inherit Thro' faith in the Three. Page 105 To thee on the throne We lift up our voice, In Father and Son, And Spirit rejoice, With anticipation Of purest delight, And all our salvation Injoy in thy sight. To: "Ah, lovely appearance of death!" O Father of mercies, attend, And suffer a wretch to complain; O Jesus, a sinner befriend, Opprest with the weight of my chain; O pitiful Spirit of love: The God whom I fain would adore, My burthen, appear, and remove, Thy favor and image restore.

Thou hear'st the unspeakable groan Which heaves in a sorrowful heart, 'Till thou, whom I never have known, The blissful assurance impart, The light of thy countenance show, With heavenly evidence shine, And bid me in liberty go, In peace, and affiance divine. Come then to thy creature, and tell The secret I cannot explore, Thy riches of mercy reveal, Thy love's inexhaustible store; Three mystical Persons in One, The truth of thy Godhead attest, Jehovah, the Father, and Son, And Spirit, abide in my breast. Page 106 While yet I am calling, appear The end of my trouble and pain: Assur'd of a Trinity here, I rise from my ruins again; I know my Redeemer, who gives A sinner his glory to see, And all the divinity lives Eternally present in me. To: "'Tis finish'd, 'tis done." The deity Trine One being we name, Three Persons divine For ever the same, One absolute nature In all we maintain, One gracious Creator Of angels and men. Jehovah is he Substantially love, The mystical Three Who witness above; Who there his pure essence Displays and conceals; Whose life-giving presence The universe fills. Thrice holy and high, Thy goodness and power Like those in the sky We fain would adore: Thy boundless compassion Each moment we prove, And all our salvation Ascribe to thy love. Page 107 O what shall we do To praise thee aright? To make us anew, Appear in our sight, Discover thy glory, Thy goodness proclaim, And prostrate before thee We worship thy name. Thy gifts are bestow'd On all the lost kind: A merciful God In thee when we find, Most freely forgiving, Abundant in grace; The living, the living We publish thy praise. Command us to rise Of pardon possest, With love's paradise Unspeakably blest; Thy forfeited favour Thine image restore, And bid us for ever Rejoice, and adore. To: "Thanks be to God alone." Hail, co-essential Three In mystic Unity! Father, Son, and Spirit, hail, God by heaven and earth ador'd, God incomprehensible, One supreme Almighty Lord. Thou sittest on the throne Plurality in One: Page 108 Saints behold thine open face, Bright, insufferably bright; Angels tremble as they gaze Sink into a sea of light!

Ah, when shall we increase Their heavenly extasies! Chant, like them, the Lord most-high, Fall like them who dare not move, Holy, holy, holy cry, Breathe the praise of silent love! Come, Father, in the Son, And in the Spirit down, Glorious, Tri-une majesty, God thro' endless ages blest, Make us meet thy face to see, Then receive us to thy breast. The great God ever-blest In the Father confest Is confest in the Spirit and Son: His worshippers true, We attribute his due To Three Persons essentially One. The philosopher vain May adore a mere man; Or invent a subordinate God: Jehovah supreme We acknowledge in him Who hath purchas'd our souls with his blood. The most holy and high We alike glorify And adore in the Spirit of love; Who his Godhead reveals, When our spirit he seals, And prepares for a kingdom above. Page 109 Neither greater nor less In the Three we confess; First, Second, and Third are the same: All the Persons we find Everlastingly join'd In the common, ineffable name. On Jehovah in all We faithfully call, And the Triad in Unity love; He inspires us to vie With our friends in the sky, And heighten the triumph above. We give glory to God Who the grace has bestow'd To confess, and to praise him aright; Singing on 'till we see The One essence in Three, And are lost in the rapturous sight. Thou unsearchable Three, Whom I languish to see, Attend to my suppliant groan: Thou knowst my sad case, With my lips I confess, But adore a Jehovah unknown. For redemption I call, Immerst in my fall, Overwhelm'd with a mountain of night: Still unanswer'd I pray For a pitiful ray From the true inaccessible light. Page 110 O Father, on me (While I feel after thee) Let the light of thy countenance shine In Immanuel's face, In the Spirit of grace, In the fulness of mercy divine. Thou alone didst inspire This impatient desire Of a knowledge I cannot attain, 'Till thyself thou reveal, And I joyfully feel I am born in thy image again. Nothing here can relieve 'Till thyself I retrieve By a mystical birth from above: Come Father, and Son, With the Comforter down In the likeness of heavenly love.

To inlighten and chear A lost sinner, appear, Holy Triad, in glory arise, In the person of him Who died to redeem, And insure me a place in the skies. Holy, holy, holy Lord, Mysterious One in Three, Must I perish unrestor'd, Through ignorance of thee? Still a dying sinner spare, 'Till thou from all my sins release: Tri-une God, regard my prayer, And bid me die in peace. Page 111 In a dreary vale of woe I long have liv'd in pain, Follow'd on the Lord to know, But follow'd on in vain: Still, alas, I know not where To find thee whom my lips confess: Tri-une God, regard my prayer, And bid me die in peace. Thou in mortal flesh reveal'd Didst hear the beggar's cry, Speak the felon's pardon seal'd When at the point to die: Thou didst on thy body bear The weight of my unrighteousness: Tri-une God, regard my prayer, And bid me die in peace. Poor and blind, condemn'd and lost, Thy ransom'd creature own; Father, send the Holy Ghost, And send in him, thy Son, By th' indwelling Comforter Renew me in thy holiness; Tri-une God, regard my prayer, And bid me die in peace. Father, Son, and Spirit, descend Into my panting heart, All my sins and griefs to end, Come tell me who thou art; Stamp me with thy character An heir of everlasting bliss; Tri-une God, regard my prayer, And bid me die in peace. Give me to believe aright, And then from earth remove, Swallow up my faith in sight My hope in heavenly love; Page 112 Thou who didst my place prepare, Prepare my soul thyself to see; Tri-une God, regard my prayer, And take me up to thee. Right notions have their slender use, But cannot a sound faith produce, Or vital piety, They cannot make the Godhead known, Or manifest Jehovah One In co-eternal Three. That virtue doth from Christ proceed, That power which animates the dead The Spirit of life exerts; The Father his own Son reveals The Tri-une God his image seals With pardon on our hearts. A fond imagination vain, A shadow floating in the brain Which we for faith misdeem, The meer result of nature's powers, 'Tis not a work of God but ours, 'Tis all a waking dream.

The orthodox renown'd in fight, Fierce champions for opinions right, May reason's strength display: Their Arian and Socinian foes, And heresy's whole houshold knows The truth as much as they. The truth that makes us free indeed, We cannot learn it from our creed, The truth that sanctifies, To bring us faith returns from heaven, And Father, Son, and Spirit given Conducts us to the skies. Page 113 Jesus the truth, the life, the way, Thou in me with thy Father stay, Thou with thy Spirit descend, I then shall know thee as thou art, The God who never will depart, My soul's eternal friend. The Father freely justifies, The Son his pardoning power asserts, The Holy Ghost that blood applies Which purifies believing hearts; Yet God who sin forgives alone In Persons Three is only One. Thou Tri-une God of pardoning love, On me thy kind compassion show, By faith begotten from above, And call'd assuredly to know The blessings by Three Persons given, The peace of God, the pledge of heaven. Jehovah come! Thyself reveal, To save a soul so dearly bought, The peace and joy unspeakable, The love surpassing human thought; Thrice holy God, to me impart, With all thou hast, and all thou art. Come Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Restorer of thine image lost, The flaming sword remove; Teach me thine image to regain, And to my docile heart explain The mystery of love. Page 114 I now perceive thy love's design; Thou didst again in council join, Thy name to re-impress, Anew thy creature to create, And raise me to my first estate In perfect righteousness. To execute thy kind intent, Jehovah from Jehovah sent Left his eternal throne, A Man of Griefs, he stain'd the tree, Saviour of all, he laid for me The precious ransom down. The Spirit purchas'd with his blood, By Father and by Son bestow'd Doth now in man reside; For us he strongly interceeds, Us into all thy counsel leads Our sure indwelling guide. Pardon he on our conscience seals, Thy good and welcome will reveals To save a world by grace: He marks us for salvation's heirs, And moulds and fashions, and prepares To see thine open face.

He sanctifies, without respect Of high or low, his own elect Regenerate from above, Into thy glorious form converts, And stamps thine image on our hearts In purity and love. O wouldst thou stamp it now on mine The name and character divine The holy One in Three! Come, Father, Son, and Spirit, give Thy love, thyself: and lo! I live Imparadis'd in thee. Page 115 Mysterious God in Persons Three, Stir up thy judging power, 'Gainst formal crouds who bow the knee, And only seem t' adore; Who Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Presume for theirs to claim, Their zeal and orthodoxy boast, Yet never knew thy name. Full of themselves, with learned pride Their talents they display, And thy true worshippers deride That walk in Christ the way, That live by faith, the gift of God, Confess thee as thou art, And daily feel the sprinkled blood Which purifies our heart. Concerning this we now agree, Petitioners for them; Who neither know themselves, nor thee, The infidels condemn: Convince them that their faith is vain, A feeble, broken reed, As standing in the words of men, The letters of a creed. Themselves they call the church of God, And hereticks despise: But more contemptuously explode The wisdom of the wise; The heart-felt faith that works by love They count a madman's dream, And all thy kingdom from above With blindfold rage blaspheme. Ah, Lord, in them the work begin, Their confidence abase, Drag out to light the hidden sin Which poisons all our race: Page 116 Thy righteous wrath from heaven be shown, And fill their souls with grief, And make the unbelievers groan To feel their unbelief. Now their foundation false o'erturn With every shew of good, And all the superstructure burn, The stubble, hay, and wood: Let them with just abhorrence cast Their virtuous rags away, And humbled to the dust at last For pardoning mercy pray. When stript of all but sin they grieve Their desperate state to see, Spiritual understanding give, And real faith in thee: Shut up in unbelief release, Reveal their sin forgiven, And bid them go in perfect peace, Thy confessors to heaven. Jesus, thy precious passion For us obtain'd the grace, Which brings assur'd salvation To all our ransom'd race: Again on rebels smiling, And to himself we see The Father reconciling A sinful world in thee.

The testifying Spirit Thy deity asserts, Imputes thy righteous merit, And plants it in our hearts; He takes of thine, and shows us The pure atoning blood; And then the stream o'erflows us, And bears our souls to God. Page 117 By faith divine perceiving The hidden mystery, With strong affection cleaving To God in Persons Three, One undivided nature We now in Three attest, And in our New-Creator His happy children rest. Infallibly assured The heavenly Three are One, We taste the bliss procured By thy expiring groan: We soon o'er death victorious Shall all thy joy receive, And in our bodies glorious Thy life eternal live. How empty our external boast, Who the true God adore In Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Nor know his gracious power: Strangers to vital piety, If sunk in sin we lie, The truth which hath not made us free, Our careless lives deny. Our faith is but a shadow vain, Unless it works by love, And sav'd from sin, and born again We seek the things above: Unless we have the sacred Trine Into our hearts receiv'd, And I can call each Person mine, I have not yet believ'd. God inaccessible, unknown, If thro' thy precious grace Convinc'd of unbelief I groan To see thy smiling face: Page 118 The veil of unbelief remove, The sins I now confess, And give my new-born soul to prove The power of godliness. Thee that I may my Father know, A grain of faith impart, The Spirit of thy Son bestow To witness in my heart; That thou in Christ art reconcil'd, My conscience certify, And then thy dear adopted child, I Abba Father cry. Son of the living God, appear, And tell me thou art he, Jehovah manifested here In frail humanity: Author of faith, thou only knowst The Father to reveal; And breath'd by thee, the Holy Ghost Doth in thy people dwell. Thou Lamb of God, who bear'st away The universal sin, Thy sin-forgiving power display, And touch a leper clean: The gracious mystery make known, Apply th' atoning blood, And vanquish'd by thy cross, I own Thou art my Lord, my God.

Spirit of faith, my soul convince Of Jesu's righteousness, Which hides, and swallows up my sins, And bids my sorrows cease: The God supreme, in heaven ador'd Who did my sorrows bear, Enable me to call him Lord, And all his power declare. Page 119 What tho' the sinners' chief I am, If thou pronounce me free, I stand absolv'd in Jesus' name, And justified by thee: The pledge, the witness, and the seal, If thou my portion art, I find, and every moment feel The Triad in my heart. Faith, tho' rational, is founded Not on man, but God alone, On the great Jehovah grounded, Persons Three in essence One: Who aright his Lord confesses, Unremoveable he stands, Fixt on an eternal basis, 'Stablish'd with almighty hands. Not on vain imaginations Do we, Lord, for proof depend; Not on fancied inspirations, When thou dost thy Spirit send: Unenlighten'd reason leaves us Nought to build our faith upon: Evidence thy Spirit gives us Brighter than the mid-day sun. Slighting nature's every feeling We on grace alone rely: God in us his Son revealing Makes us Abba Father cry: When we find the hidden treasure, Christ discover'd from above, Then our souls perceive the pleasure, Impulse sweet of Jesus' love. O that all our blind gainsayers Might the loving impulse feel! Tri-une God, regard our prayers, Thou in them thyself reveal, Page 120 By the Spirit's demonstration Teach their hearts the mystery, Show to each the great salvation, Tell him I have pardon'd thee! Bowels of divine compassion, Love reveal'd in Persons Three, God of grace and consolation, Manifest thyself to me: Conscious of my blood-bought pardon, Let me in thine image rise: Make my soul a watred garden, Give me back my paradise. Make thy goodness pass before me, Glorious God thyself proclaim, To my first estate restore me, Re-imprest with thy new name, In the likeness of my Maker Re-begotten from above, Of thy holiness partaker, Fill'd with all the life of love. Father, to thy protection From fiends and men I fly, And rest in thy affection, When passion's storm runs high, Beneath my soul, defended From all invading harms, Thy mercy hath extended Its everlasting arms. Jesus, Jehovah's power, Thy promis'd help I claim, And run into the tower Of thine almighty name:

Page 121 Impregnable the city Which hides my life above; My refuge is thy pity, My safety is thy love. Spirit of consolation And all-sufficient grace, In every strong temptation Thou shalt a standard raise Against my foe infernal, And shew me on the tree The dying God eternal Whose blood hath ransom'd me. By faith I now inherit Both strength and righteousness, In Father, Son, and Spirit, The God whom I confess: Whate'er I ask, desiring, I have; I surely have The Three in One conspiring This dear-bought soul to save. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Sav'd by thee Happy we Shall thy throne inherit: Here our heavenly banquet tasting, In thy love Joys we prove Ever, ever lasting. Rapturous anticipation! Who believe We receive Sensible salvation; Page 122 Silent bliss and full of glory, In thine eye While we lie Prostrated before thee. Manna spiritual and hidden, Perfect peace We possess, Our recover'd Eden: 'Till we find the fulness given In that sight, Mercy's height, Love's sublimest heaven! In majesty One, In glory the same The Father and Son And Spirit we name; One nature and essence In Three we assert, Whose personal presence Is fixt in our heart. The Trinity we Alone can attest, Who carry the Three And One in our breast; Who seal'd by his Spirit, And wash'd with his blood, In Jesus inherit The fulness of God. Wisdom, and praise, and glory be To God alone in Persons Three, Who to his church the truth imparts, And seals it on our happy hearts. Page 123 The Lord of hosts, the Lord most high, The Tri-une God we magnify, With all his prostrate hosts adore, And love, and praise him evermore. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, One stupendous God in Three, Make us meet thy joy t' inherit, Thee without a veil to see, Wise to fathom All the depths of deity. Father, kindly draw, and give us To thy consubstantial Son; Son of God, with smiles receive us, Shine, and make thy nature known; Glorious Spirit, Be our heaven on earth begun. Thou to thine apostate creature Only canst thyself reveal; Stronger than our heart and greater, Tri-une God, the secret tell: Come, Jehovah, God in man for ever dwell.

We God the Father praise, We God the Son adore, The Spirit of holiness In majesty and power Equal to both we magnify, And holy, holy, holy cry! He hath to us made known The awful mystery, The Trinity in One, And Unity in Three, And taught the ransom'd sons of men What angels never could explain. Page 124 Beyond our utmost thought, And reason's proudest flight, We comprehend him not, Nor grasp the infinite, But worship in the mystic Three One God to all eternity. The sacred Three conspire In love to fallen man, T' exalt the creature higher, And turn his loss to gain: Still in the new creation The Persons all agree, Joint-causes of salvation, To raise, and perfect me. The Father's grace allures me, And to my Saviour gives; The Saviour's blood assures me, That God his child receives: The Comforter bears witness That I am truly his, And brings my soul its fitness For everlasting bliss. The Father, Son, and Spirit Himself to me makes known, And I in him inherit One God, for ever One: Jehovah's purest essence My raptur'd spirit seals; And all his blissful presence In all his people dwells. The Father, Son, and Spirit praise Restorer of our ruin'd race, One God eternally ador'd, One merciful, Almighty Lord! Hark! He whispers from above; Tells our hearts, that God is love! Page 125 The Tri-une God is found below, Whom only loving hearts can know, In every Person of the Three Resides the whole divinity: God, to me thy house of clay Come, and here for ever stay. Thee, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Inexplicably One and Three, As worship'd by the heavenly host, Thy church on earth we worship thee, Three unconfounded Persons own, One undivided God proclaim, In essence, substance, nature One Thro' all eternity the same. One Person of the Sire we praise, Another of the Son adore, Another of the Spirit confess, Equal in majesty and power: To each the glory appertains, The Godhead of the Three is One, And One supreme Jehovah reigns High on his everlasting throne. The Father, Son, and Spirit of love One uncreated God we hail, Not fully known by saints above, To us incomprehensible: The Father, Son, and Spirit of grace, All-wise, almighty, and most-high, One true eternal God we bless, And spread his fame thro' earth and sky.

The Father is both God and Lord, Both God and Lord is Christ the Son, The Holy Ghost, the glorious Third Both God and Lord his people own; Page 126 Both God and Lord, who him believe, Each Person by himself we name, Yet not three gods or lords receive, But One essentially the same. Father full of soft compassion, If to all thy bowels move, Grant to me the consolation, Sweet assurance of thy love, Shed it in my heart abroad, Show thyself a pardning God. For thy nature's sake forgive me, God in Jesus reconcil'd, A poor prodigal receive me As thine own adopted child, In thy mercy's arms embrace, Kiss the sorrow from my face. Tho' my sins reach up to heaven, Higher still thy mercies rise; Infinite my sins forgiven: How shall I thy goodness prize? Let me all thy goodness prove, Let me infinitely love. Thy divinity's adorer, Thee that I may truly know, Jesus, be my soul's restorer, Bleeding Lamb, appear below, God expiring on the tree Love, be manifest in me. Sharer of thy dereliction, Joining in thy plaintive cry, Pain'd with thy extreme affliction Let my broken heart reply, O let all within me moan, Echo back thy dying groan! Page 127 Here would I maintain my station, Never from the cross remove, 'Till I in my last temptation Pay thee back thy dearest love, Faint into thy arms away, Die into immortal day. Kindler of seraphic fire Glowing in thy hosts above, Giver of the pure desire, Spirit of celestial love, Heavenly love to us impart, Comfort every drooping heart. If thou hast a token given, If our want of love we feel, Bless us with that taste of heaven, Pardon on our conscience seal; Then with cordial charity, Gracious God, we cleave to thee. Then, because thou first hast loved, We shall love our God again, Happy, 'till from earth removed, Joy consummate we obtain, Dazzled with the glorious sight, Lost in an abyss of light. Tri-une God, the new-creator Of our fallen souls appear, O communicate thy nature, Raise us to thy image here, In true holiness renew'd, Spotless portraitures of God. By a blest anticipation Of thy perfect righteousness, Qualify us for salvation Vessels of celestial grace, Page 128 Meet by love and purity God without a veil to see.

Then cut short our days of mourning, Then our ready souls receive, Call us up with songs returning In thy blissful sight to live, Live, and praise thee on the throne, God in Three for ever One. Who God in Christ discover By his own Spirit's power, And love our heavenly lover, And One in Three adore, The secret hid from ages, Having our Saviour's mind, We in the sacred pages And we alone can find. Assenting to the letter A sinner nothing gains: It cannot free the debtor, Or break the prisoner's chains; The truest, soundest notion Can never guilt remove, Or give that heart-devotion Which flows from humble love. Thou God who sin forgivest, To thee if sinners turn, And in thine arms receivest When after thee we mourn; Thy gospel's controversy Against the men maintain Who spurn thy pard'ning mercy, And bear thy name in vain. The world of misbelievers Thou only canst convince, Orthodox self-deceivers Shut up in all their sins: Page 129 Darkness for light mistaking And light for darkness, they O'erlook the one thing lacking, Or scornfully gainsay. Our faith, imagination, Our hope they count a lye, The present, sure salvation, The heart-felt love deny; The witness of that Spirit, The antepast, and seal, And his imputed merit Who saves us all from hell. Their shadowy faith embracing, A creature of their own, Thee with their sins confessing They bow to Three in One; Assur'd they only know thee, With sin they will not part, Or render that they owe thee, An undivided heart. Stir up thy saving power, Mysterious One in Three, Nor let the pit devour The souls redeem'd by thee: Convince of their delusion The enemies of grace, And clothe them with confusion, That they may seek thy face. Beneath their burthen groaning When after thee they cry, Their unbelief bemoaning As at the point to die, From guilt and condemnation Thy penitents to clear, The God of their salvation, The Tri-une God appear. Page 130 Tri-une God of pard'ning love, Thy divine economy All our thankful hearts approve, Thee adore in Persons Three; Each our cancel'd sin reveals, Each confirms the babes forgiven, Each the heirs of glory seals, Each conducts our souls to heaven.

Holy, holy, holy Lord, Favour'd with a taste of grace, Us thou hast in part restor'd; Us thy mercy's arms embrace: Never wilt thou let us go, 'Till the length and breadth we prove, 'Till the height and depth we know, All the depth of humble love. Love our real holiness, Love our spotless character, Love is liberty and peace, Pardon, and perfection here: Less than this cannot suffice; Love be thou our all in all; Then we in thine image rise, Then we into nothing fall. To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Our thanks and hearts we give: We now are found who once were lost, And dead, again we live. We live to praise and magnify The glorious Three and One, In songs of joyful love to vie With angels round his throne. Page 131 More highly favour'd we than those Who never sinn'd or fell: The Tri-une God hath sav'd his foes, And pluck'd us out of hell: We grow in grace, abound in hope, His prodigals forgiven; And when our faith is quite fill'd up, He takes us all to heaven. Great Tri-une God, whose ruling power Must prevalent o'er all appear, Hasten the destin'd day and hour Establishing thy kingdom here: Sublime on thy millennial throne, Thee all thy saints expect to see, While every tongue, like ours, shall own Jehovah One in Persons Three. Stretch out thine arm, Almighty King, Thine own omnipotence assume, The first and last dominion bring, To reign before thine ancients come: O might we at the time foretold See all things to thyself subdued, And every prostrate soul behold Adorers of the Tri-une God. In answer to the chosen race, Who ceaseless for thy coming cry, Shorten the last vindictive days, And let the trump proclaim thee nigh: Return, thou once a Man of Woe, Distinguish'd by the crimson sign, And in thy dazling person show The glorious plenitude divine. Page 132 That wand'ring star who blaz'd and fell, And poison'd many a crystal stream, That bitter first-born child of hell No more permit him to blaspheme: Root out thine Unitarian foe, Nor longer let his place be found, The crescent by the cross o'erthrow, And loose the world in darkness bound.

It must be so: the day is near, The far-spent night will quickly end, And every eye discern thee here, And saints perceive their King descend: When all are put beneath thy feet, And death the latest foe is slain, Then I shall mount thy azure seat, Then I shall in thy presence reign!