THE OPERATIONS OF GOD

All this world's vigour is dismayed,

All this world's wisdom is denied;

Fresh power and wisdom is displayed

In Jesus Christ, the Crucified.

Secured at infinite expense

Many, deriving from that One

Share - while He has pre-eminence -

The place, and Spirit of God's Son.

Esteeming the descending mind

Which moved Christ Jesus as He came

From glory to the depths we find

Our minds conforming to the same.

In the affectionate control

Of Him, who fills the Father's heart,

With grateful voices we extol

The God whose work sets us apart.

Chosen before time had begun,

Redeemed, forgiven, given grace

In Christ, in God's Beloved One,

We bless God for our favoured place.