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With glorious clouds encompassed round

Author: Charles Wesley
Published in 74 hymnals

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1 With glorious clouds encompassed round,
whom angels dimly see,
will the Unsearchable be found,
or God appear to me?

2 Will he forsake his throne above,
himself to me impart?
Answer, thou Man of grief and love,
and speak it to my heart!

3 In manifested love explain
thy wonderful design;
what meant the suffering Son of Man?
the streaming blood divine?

4 Didst thou not in our flesh appear,
and live and die below,
that I may now perceive thee near,
and my Redeemer know?

5 Come then, and to my soul reveal
the heights and depths of grace,
those wounds which all my sorrows heal,
that dear disfigured face.

6 I view the Lamb in his own light,
whom angels dimly see,
and gaze, transported at the sight,
through all eternity.

Source: Common Praise: A new edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern #623

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Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

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