178. Blest Father, Infinite in Grace

C.M.
by J.N. Darby, 1879
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Blest Father, infinite in grace,
 
Source of eternal joy;
 
Thou lead’st our hearts to that blest place
 
Where rest’s without alloy.
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There will Thy love find perfect rest,
 
Where all around is bliss,
 
Where all in Thee supremely blest,
 
Thy praise their service is.
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Eternal love their portion is,
 
Where love has found its rest;
 
And, filled with Thee, the constant mind
 
Eternally is blest.
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There Christ, the center of the throng,
 
Shall in His glory shine;
 
But not an eye those hosts among
 
But sees His glory Thine.
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Thy counsels, too, in all Thine own,
 
Fulfilled by power divine,
 
Spread wide the glory of Thy throne,
 
Where all in glory shine.
“In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.” (Ephesians 1:11)
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Yet deeper, if a calmer, joy
 
The Father’s love shall raise,
 
And every heart find sweet employ
 
In His eternal praise.
“Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.” (Revelation 7:15)
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Nor is its sweetness now unknown,
 
Well proved in what it’s done;
 
Our Father’s love with joy we own,
 
Revealed in Christ the Son.
“Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?” (John 14:9)
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