The Hymnal 1982 446
Praise to the Holiest in the height
- Tune
- newman
- Author(s)
- John Henry Newman, 1801-1890
- Composer(s)
- Richard Runciman Terry, 1865-1938
- Meter
- 8.6.8.6
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1 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!
2 O loving wisdom of our God! When all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
3 O wisest love! that flesh and blood, which did in Adam fail, should strive afresh against the foe, should strive, and should prevail;
4 and that the highest gift of grace should flesh and blood refine: God’s presence and his very self, and essence all-divine.
5 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!