Verse 1
The witnesses in heaven ador’d,
The Father, Holy Ghost, and Word,
One God with all his church we own,
In Persons Three for ever One.
Verse 2
But ’till our souls are born again,
We to the truth assent in vain,
By notions right ourselves deceive,
And only fancy we believe.
Verse 3
The Tri-une God we cannot know,
Unless he doth the faith bestow,
Faith which removes our mountain-load,
And brings us to a pard’ning God:
Verse 4
Sure evidence of things unseen,
Which swallows up the gulph between,
The light of life divine imparts,
And forms Jehovah in our hearts.
Verse 5
O that we all might thus believe,
The truth in humble love receive,
Author of faith our Saviour find
In God the Father of mankind;
Verse 6
In both the Holy Spirit know
(Who doth where’er he listeth blow)
And the whole Trinity receive
For ever in our hearts to live!