The Voice of Praise ‎#141

141. THEE we adore, eternal Word!

1 THEE we adore, eternal Word!
The Father's equal Son;
By heaven's obedient hosts adored
Ere time its course begun.

2 The first creation has displayed
Thine energy divine;
For not a single thing was made
By other hands than thine.

3 But ransomed sinners, with delight,
Sublimer facts survey,--
The all-creating Word united
Himself to dust and clay.

4 Creation's Author now assumes
A creature's humble form;
A man of grief and woe becomes--
Is trod on like a worm.

5 The Lord of glory bears the same
To vile transgressors due;
Justice the Prince of life condemns
To die in anguish too.

6 God over all, forever blest,
The righteous curse endures;
And thus, to souls with sin distressed,
Eternal bliss insures.

Text Information

• First Line: THEE we adore, eternal Word!
• Author: Anon.
• Meter: C. M.
• Publication Date: 1873
• Topic: Christ: Divinity; The Divinity of Christ

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