Brightness of the’ eternal glory

Verse 1
Brightness of th’ eternal glory,
Image of our God exprest,
Jesus, let thy works adore thee,
God supreme forever blest!
Still upheld by their Creator,
Heaven and earth thy power confess;
Lord of universal nature,
Take the universal praise.

Verse 2
From his heavenly throne descending
Son of God, and Son of man,
See him on a cross depending,
By his sinful creatures slain!
O the depth of love redeeming!
God his Spirit doth resign!
See the blood in pardons streaming,
Precious balm of blood divine!

Verse 3
Flow’d from him an open fountain
For the universal sin,
Wash’d away th’ enormous mountain,
Made a world of sinners clean;
By his one compleat oblation,
Jesus did the ransom find,
Quench’d his Father’s indignation,
Purg’d the guilt of all mankind.

Verse 4
After his few days of mourning,
Rose our Lord no more to die,
To his heavenly realms returning,
To his seat above the sky,
Where he sat supreme, before
One of all his works was made,
In full majesty and power,
Rested our triumphant head.

Verse 5
Object of their adoration,
Saviour, thee thine angel-train
Met with rapturous exclamation,
Welcom’d to thy courts again!
Still they shout, and fall before thee,
Thee their great Creator own,
Re-install’d in all thy glory,
Bright on thine eternal throne!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.”—Heb. i. 3. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 116.
Publishing: Public Domain