Fifth Choir Of Angelicals

Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise: In all His words most wonderful; Most sure in all His ways!

O loving wisdom of our God! When all was sin and shame, A second Adam to the fight And to the rescue came.

O wisest love! that flesh and blood Which did in Adam fail, Should strive afresh against the foe, Should strive and should prevail;

And that a higher gift than grace Should flesh and blood refine, God's Presence and His very Self, And Essence all divine.

O generous love! that He who smote In man for man the foe, The double agony in man For man should undergo;

And in the garden secretly, And on the cross on high, Should teach His brethren and inspire To suffer and to die.

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