Let Earth and Heaven Combine

Let earth and Heav­en com­bine

Angels and men agree

To praise in songs di­vine

Th’in­car­nate De­ity

Our God con­tract­ed to a span

Incomprehensibly made man.

He laid His glo­ry by

He wrapped Him in our clay;

Unmarked by hu­man eye

The la­tent God­head lay;

Infant of days He here be­came

And bore the loved Im­ma­nu­el’s name.

See in that In­fant’s face

The depths of de­ity

And la­bor while ye gaze

To sound the mys­te­ry:

In vain; ye an­gels gaze no more

But fall

and si­lent­ly ad­ore.

Unsearchable the love

That hath the Sav­ior brought

The grace is far ab­ove

Of men or an­gels’ thought:

Suffice for us that God

we know

Our God

is ma­ni­fest be­low.

He deigns in flesh t’ap­pear

Widest ex­tremes to join;

To bring our vile­ness near

And make us all di­vine:

And we the life of God shall know

For God is ma­ni­fest below.

Made per­fect first in love

And sanc­ti­fied by grace

We shall from earth re­move

And see His glo­ri­ous face:

His love shall then be ful­ly showed

And man shall all be lost in God.