Versos English Philip Doddridge Christians risen and exalted with CHRIST to heavenly Places. Eph. ii. 5, 6

English poem

Christians risen and exalted with CHRIST to heavenly Places. Eph. ii. 5, 6

by (1773–1832)

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Stupendous Grace! and can it be Design'd for Rebels such as we? O let our ardent Praises rise, High as our Hopes beyond the Skies!

This Flesh, by righteous Vengeance slain, Might ever in the Dust remain: These guilty Spirits sent to dwell 'Midst all the Flames and Fiends of Hell.

But lo! incarnate Love descends; Down to the Sepulchre it bends; Rising, it tears the Bars away, And springs to its own native Day.

Then was our Sepulchre unbar'd; Then was our Path to Glory clear'd; Then, if that Saviour be our own, Did we ascend a heav'nly Throne.

A Moment shall our Joy compleat, And fix us in that shining Seat, Bought by the Pangs our Lord endur'd, And by unchanging Truth secur'd.

O may that Love, in Strains sublime, Be sung to the last Hour of Time! And let Eternity confess, Thro' all its Rounds, the matchless Grace.