The Father…the Son and…the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:20
Words: Charles Wesley, Hymns on the Trinity 1767.
Music: Eccles (Boggett) Richard Boggett (1796–1879). Published in the Methodist Hymn and Tune Book (Toronto, Canada: Methodist Book & Publishing House, 1894), number 69 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Hail, co-essential Three,
In mystic unity!
Father, Son, and Spirit, hail!
God by Heaven and earth adored,
God incomprehensible;
One supreme, almighty Lord,
One supreme, almighty Lord.
Thou sittest on the throne,
Plurality in one;
Saints behold Thine open face,
Bright, insufferably bright;
Angels tremble as they gaze,
Sink into a sea of light,
Sink into a sea of light.
Ah! when shall we increase
Their heavenly ecstasies?
Chant, like them, the Lord Most High,
Fall like them who dare not move;
Holy, holy, holy,
cry,
Breathe the praise of silent love?
Breathe the praise of silent love?
Come, Father, in the Son
And in the Spirit down;
Glorious triune majesty,
God through endless ages blest,
Make us meet Thy face to see,
Then receive us to Thy breast;
Then receive us to Thy breast.