Sunday's Hymn: Let Earth and Heaven Combine

Let earth and Heaven combine,
Angels and men agree,
To praise in songs divine
The incarnate Deity,
Our God contracted to a span,
Incomprehensibly made man.

He laid His glory by,
He wrapped Him in our clay;
Unmarked by human eye,
The latent Godhead lay;
Infant of days He here became,
And bore the mild Immanuel’s name.

See in that infant’s face
The depths of deity,
And labor while ye gaze
To sound the mystery
In vain; ye angels gaze no more,
But fall, and silently adore.

Unsearchable the love
That hath the Savior brought;
The grace is far above
Of men or angels’ thought:
Suffice for us that God, we know,
Our God, is manifest below.

He deigns in flesh t’appear,
Widest extremes to join;
To bring our vileness near,
And make us all divine:
And we the life of God shall know,
For God is manifest below.

Made perfect first in love,
And sanctified by grace,
We shall from earth remove,
And see His glorious face:
His love shall then be fully showed,
And man shall all be lost in God.

—Charles Wesley

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• Update: Veni Veni Emmanuel at threegirldad
• Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent and one more at Jam and Books
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen at Hiraeth
• Join All the Glorious Names at Daily On My Way to Heaven
• Hark, the Glad Sound at Rosemary at Home
• To Us a Child of Hope is Born at Whatever Things
• Lift Up Your Heads, Rejoice! at The Happy Wonderer
• O Come, O Come, Emmanuel at Fieldstone Cottage
• Let Earth and Heaven Combine at Tried With Fire 
• Lord’s Day 50, 2011 at The Thirsty Theologian

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list. 

Comments

[Dorothy]

What a beautiful hymn! I never read it before today but Persis at Tried by Fire also posted it...although you do have a few more verses, Rebecca. Thank you for the YouTube too.