The Cyber Hymnal ‎#8701

8701. The Mighty Frame Of Glorious Grace

1 The mighty frame of glorious grace,
That brightest monument of praise
That e’er the God of love designed,
Employs and fills my laboring mind.

2 Begin, my soul, the heav’nly song,
A burden for an angel’s tongue:
When Gabriel sounds these awful things,
He tunes and summons all his strings.

3 Proclaim inimitable love:
Jesus, the Lord of worlds above,
Puts off the beams of bright array,
And veils the God in mortal clay!

4 What black reproach defiled His name,
When with our sins He took our shame!
He whom adoring angels blessed
Is made the impious rebel’s jest.

5 He that distributes crowns and thrones
Hangs on a tree, and bleeds, and groans!
The Prince of Life resigns His breath,
The King of Glory bows to death!

6 But see the wonders of His power,
He triumphs in His dying hour;
And while by Satan’s rage He fell,
He dashed the rising hopes of hell.

7 Thus were the hosts of death subdued,
And sin was drowned in Jesus’ blood;
Thus He arose, and reigns above,
And conquers sinners by His love.

8 Who shall fulfill this boundless song?
The theme surmounts an angel’s tongue:
How low, how vain are mortal airs,
When Gabriel’s nobler harp despairs!

Text Information

• First Line: The mighty frame of glorious grace
• Title: The Mighty Frame Of Glorious Grace
• Author: Isaac Watts
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs Book 1, 1707
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tunes: ST. CRISPIN by George J. Elvey; ST. JOHN'S HIGHLANDS

Tune Information

• Name: SALVETE FLORES
• Composer: John Bacchus Dykes (1875)
• Meter: LM
• Key: C Major
• Copyright: Public Domain