Friday, March 4, 2022

We Give Immortal Praise (poem)

 We give immortal praise to God the Father's love

for all our comforts here, and better hopes above:

he sent his own eternal Son,

to die for sins that man had done.


To God the Son belongs immortal glory too,

who bought us with his blood from everlasting woe:

and now he lives, and now he reigns,

and sees the fruit of all his pains.


To God the Spirit's name immortal worship give,

whose new-creating power makes the dead sinner live:

his work completes the great design,

and fills the soul with joy divine.


Almighty God, to thee be endless honours done,

the undivided Three, and the mysterious One:

where reason fails with all her powers,

there faith prevails, and love adores.


-Isaac Watts