The Cyber Hymnal ‎#8446

8446. Eternal and Immortal King

1 Eternal and immortal King,
Thy peerless splendors none can bear;
But darkness veils seraphic eyes,
When God with all His luster’s there.

2 Yet faith can pierce the awful gloom,
The great Invisible can see;
And with its tremblings mingle joy
In fixed regards, great God, to Thee.

3 Then every tempting form of sin,
Shamed in Thy presence, disappears;
And all the glowing raptured soul
The likeness it contemplates it wears,

4 O ever conscious to my heart,
Witness to its supreme desire,
Behold, it presseth on to Thee,
For it hath caught the heav’nly fire.

5 This one petition would it urge,
To bear Thee ever in its sight;
In life, in death, in worlds unknown,
Its only portion and delight.

Text Information

• First Line: Eternal and immortal King
• Title: Eternal and Immortal King
• Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton, 1755)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: ETERNAL KING
• Composer: Anthony Johnson Showalter (1923)
• Meter: LM
• Key: E♭ Major
• Source: The Gospel Way (Dalton, GA: A. J. Showalter, 1923)
• Copyright: Public Domain