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Who! O, who shall tell His acts miraculous? When His own decrees Repeals He, or suspends; when by the hand Of Moses or of Joshua, or the mouths Of His prophetic seers, such deeds He wrought, Before the astonished sun’s all-seeing eye, That faith was scarce a virtue. Need I sing The fate of Pharaoh, and his numerous band, Lost in the reflux of the watery walls, That melted to their fluid state again? Need I recount bow Samson’s warlike arm With more than mortal nerves was strung, to o’erthrow Idolatrous Philistia? Shall I tell How David triumphed, and what Job sustained? —But, O supreme, unutterable mercy! O love unequalled, mystery immense, Which angels long to unfold! ’Tis man’s redemption That crowns Thy glory, and Thy power confirms.
Who! O, who shall tell His acts miraculous? When His own decrees Repeals He, or suspends; when by the hand Of Moses or of Joshua, or the mouths Of His prophetic seers, such deeds He wrought, Before the astonished sun’s all-seeing eye, That faith was scarce a virtue. Need I sing The fate of Pharaoh, and his numerous band, Lost in the reflux of the watery walls, That melted to their fluid state again? Need I recount bow Samson’s warlike arm With more than mortal nerves was strung, to o’erthrow Idolatrous Philistia? Shall I tell How David triumphed, and what Job sustained? —But, O supreme, unutterable mercy! O love unequalled, mystery immense, Which angels long to unfold! ’Tis man’s redemption That crowns Thy glory, and Thy power confirms.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 390 · printed citation: Smart · subject: MIRACLES
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