Greatly beloved

Verse 1

Greatly belov'd, Of God approv'd; Ere Time began, Jehovah's darling Man Possess'd his Naruer, Love, Above; There Man is known, Whilst Angels own, Above them far, This bright and Morning-Star.

Verse 2

When all beheld, With Wonder fill'd, The glorious Grace Sparkle in Jesu's Face; We, Worms, as wholly blind In Mind, Could not discern What did concern Our Hearts alone, That Orb in which we shone.

Verse 3

But God would show, To us below, His Grace and choice, Whilst we in Heart rejoice; And this reveal'd by Blood, When God Became a Man; And then began In Love to cure Our Nature, blind, impure.

Verse 4

The work was great, In made him sweat, Blood-Rivers flow'd, He groan'd and cry'd aloud; Whilst Sorrows rent his Heart With Smart Unspeakable: The Pains of Hell, Infernal Wrath, Incompaas'd him in Death.

Verse 5

With many Tears, And unknown Fears, Heart-breaking Sighs, Infininte Agonies, Wounds, Blood, and Bruises fresh, His Flesh All over fill; In Anguish, still, He yields his Breath To the accursed Death.

Verse 6

Fail Nature's Laws; The Sun withdraws; With dreadful Crack, The Rocks asunder break; Confuls'd Creation shakes, Earth quakes; All old Things die, Non-entity, Pass'd over all That liv'd by Adam's Fall.

Verse 7

Hence came the Hour when God, with Pow'r, Rais'd from the Dead The Members, and the Head: In that one perfect Man, The Plan Of Grace we see, Where Christ and we Were nam'd in one, The Father's only Son.

Verse 8

His JOy fulfill'd In ev'ry Child: We, in that Grace, Behold the Father's Face: In that exalted Man, We can For-ever view, That love, so true, Which did us raise To never-ceasing Praise.