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Text:Stupendous Mystery!
Author:Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Tune:ACCRA
Composer:James McGranahan, 1840-1907
Media:MIDI file

6381. Stupendous Mystery!

1. Stupendous mystery!
God in our flesh is seen
(While angels ask, how can it be?)
And dwells with sinful men!
Our nature He assumes,
That we may His retrieve;
He comes, to our dead world He comes,
That all thro’ Him may live.

2. The true, eternal Word
To us a Child is given,
The sovereign God, th’Almighty Lord,
Who fills both earth and Heaven;
Our God on earth appears
To take our sins away,
And guide us thro’ the vale of tears
To realms of endless day.

Text Information
First Line: Stupendous mystery
Title: Stupendous Mystery!
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Meter: SMD
Language: English
Source: The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, by S. T. Kimbrough, Jr., & Oliver A. Beckerlegge (Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press, 1992), pages 106-7
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tune: DIADEMATA, George J. Elvey, Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1868
Tune Information
Name: ACCRA
Composer: James McGranahan, 1840-1907
Meter: SMD
Incipit: 51345 66511 71513
Key: C Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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