| Hymn: | Praise To The Holiest In The Height |
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| Tune: | Gerontius |
| Words: | John Henry Newman (1801-90) |
| Music: | John Bacchus Dykes (1823-76) |
Verse 1
Praise to the Holiest in the height,
and in the depth be praise:
in all his words most wonderful,
most sure in all his ways.
Verse 2
O loving wisdom of our God!
When all was sin and shame,
a second Adam to the fight
and to the rescue came.
Verse 3
O wisest love! that flesh and blood,
which did in Adam fail,
should strive afresh against the foe,
should strive and should prevail;
Verse 4
And that a higher gift than grace
should flesh and blood refine,
God's presence and his very self,
and essence all-divine.
Verse 5
O generous love! that he, who smote
in Man for man the foe,
the double agony in Man
for man should undergo;
Verse 6
And in the garden secretly,
and on the cross on high,
should teach his brethren, and inspire
to suffer and to die.
Verse 7
Praise to the Holiest in the height,
and in the depth be praise:
in all his words most wonderful,
most sure in all his ways.