1. Thou, who
from the Father hast
‘Fore all Time proceeded,
Spirit, by whom the Virgin Blest
The Son here conceived!
2. Since the
Lamb of God, so red,
Is his People’s Brother,
And Christ’s God their Father’s
made,
Thou’rt the Church’s Mother.
3. Of thy
Name, O God, and Breath
Grant us still the Nearness!
That the Word of Jesu’s
Shine to Souls with Clearness.
4. Whom from
Death-Sleep of the Fall
Our dear Lord doth quicken,
Fetch into thy Church-Ark all;
Help their Abba speaking.
5. As in
greatest Things thy Will
Meets with Execution:
So in small shall it fulfil
His Church-Constitution.
6. Of the
Righteousness of God
Thro’ the Blood-Effusion,
Of that daily Bread and Food
Thou mak’st Distribution.
7. MOTHER! all
the Church’s Life
Is the Father’s Kindness,
Our Lord’s Patience with his Wife,
And thy rich Forgiveness.
8. We would
fain not tempted be,
With none thus distressed;
Yet if one’s chastis’d by Thee,
It to him be blessed.
9. And till
once the wicked Fiend
Is at God’s Feet lying, (Ps. cx.1.
Heb. ii.8.)
Sleeps within thy Cradle screen’d
The Church from his Trying.
10. Amen,
Ruach Elohim!
Come in th’ Name of Jesus,
Thy Children’s whole Sanhedrim
Rule with Instinct gracious.
