While the army above

Verse 1
While the army above
Overwhelm’d by his love
The Trinity sings,
With their faces inwrapt in their shadowing wings;
Holy Father, we cry,
Holy Son we reply!
Holy Spirit of grace!
And extol the Three-One in a rapture of praise!

Verse 2
Many gods we disclaim,
For the Three are the same,
In a manner unknown
Three Persons divine inexpressibly One;
Who all homage demands
From the work of his hands,
Re-created to know,
And resemble his God manifested below.

Verse 3
Their omnipotent Lord
By angels ador’d
When their being began,
And in Eden extol’d by the primitive man;
As it was, and as now
To the Triad we bow,
Men and angels shall fall,
And eternally praise the Creator of all.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Charles Wesley, Hymns on the Trinity (Bristol: William Pine, 1767). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 7 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 301.
Publishing: Public Domain