Religion

Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity, 3

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity (1767) · Osborn ed., vol. 7 (1870)

Religion

To — "Away with our fears.'"
While the army above
Overwhelm'd by His love
The Trinity sings,
With their faces enwrapp'd in their shadowing
wings;
Holy Father, we cry,
Holy Son we reply!

Holy Spirit of grace!
And extol the Three-One in a rapture of praise!
Many Gods we disclaim,
For the three are the same,
In a manner unknown
Three persons Divine inexpressibly one;
Who all homage demands
From the work of His hands,
Re-created to know,
And resemble his God manifested below.

Their omnipotent Lord
By angels adored
When their being began,
And in Eden extoll'd by the primitive man:
As it was, and as now
To the Triad we bow,
Men and angels shall fall,
And eternally praise the Creator of all.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity, 3.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/1935/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity, 3.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/1935/.

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