Religion
Luke 2:7: She... laid Him in a manger; because, &c
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)
See ye blushing sons of pride,
See your God a child become!
When He would on earth reside.
Earth can scarce afford Him room:
Wrapp'd Himself in swaddling bands
Who with darkness swathes the sea,
Who the universe commands,
Comprehends immensity!
Triumph we the sons of grace,
That our God is born so poor,
Doth His majesty abase
Our salvation to secure:
Glorying in our Infant-King,
Him we in the manger own,
Him whom brightest seraphs sing
High on His eternal throne.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 2:7: She... laid Him in a manger; because, &c.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5015/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 2:7: She... laid Him in a manger; because, &c.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5015/.
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