The Cyber Hymnal ‎#10179

10179. Great God, In Vain Man's Narrow View

1 Great God, in vain man’s narrow view
Attempts to look Thy nature through;
Our laboring powers with reverence own
Thy glories never can be known.

2 Not the high seraph’s mighty thought,
Who countless years his God has sought,
Such wondrous height or depth can find,
Or fully trace Thy boundless mind.

3 Yet, Lord, Thy kindness deigns to show
Enough for mortal men to know;
While wisdom, goodness, power divine
Thro’ all Thy works and conduct shine.

4 O! may our souls with rapture trace
Thy works of nature and of grace,
Explore Thy sacred truth, and still
Press on to know and do Thy will!

Text Information

• First Line: Great God, in vain man’s narrow view
• Title: Great God, In Vain Man's Narrow View
• Author: Andrew Kippis (1795)
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tunes: BRESLAU from "As Hymnodus Sacer;" DUKE STREET attr. to John Hatton; GERMANY by William Gardiner; HAMBURG by Lowell Mason; HESPERUS by Henry Baker

Tune Information

• Name: TRURO
• Meter: LM
• Key: C Major
• Source: Psalmodia Evangelica by Thomas Williams, 1789
• Copyright: Public Domain