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Sunday before Easter.

Almighty God of endless might, abiding in eternal light, Thou ever gracious, ever kind, in tender love to all mankind. How great, how vast Thy wondrous love, in sending from Thy throne above Thy wellbeloved, only Son, our human nature to put on. And in our flesh to live and die, example of humility, upon the woeful cross to bleed, divinest work of love indeed! Enable us to lift our eyes, where Jesus suffering for us dies! By Him our drowsy souls awake through life to death our course to take. O give us grace His path to trace, where passed His feet, our own to place; thus lowly patient followers be of our dear Lord’s humility. Though rough the road, though thorns be rife along this toilsome path of life, though faint and weary in the way, while mists of sin obscure our day: Still patiently may we pursue, though joys within our grasp be few, this joyful hope, our comfort make His resurrection to partake: To reign with our arisen Lord, in Whom eternal life is stored, Himself, our King, our shield in strife, our rest in death, our Life of life.

1 Almighty God of endless might,
abiding in eternal light,
Thou ever gracious, ever kind,
in tender love to all mankind.
How great, how vast Thy wondrous love,
in sending from Thy throne above
Thy wellbeloved, only Son,
our human nature to put on.
2 And in our flesh to live and die,
example of humility,
upon the woeful cross to bleed,
divinest work of love indeed!
Enable us to lift our eyes,
where Jesus suffering for us dies!
By Him our drowsy souls awake
through life to death our course to take.
3 O give us grace His path to trace,
where passed His feet, our own to place;
thus lowly patient followers be
of our dear Lord’s humility.
Though rough the road, though thorns be rife
along this toilsome path of life,
though faint and weary in the way,
while mists of sin obscure our day:
4 Still patiently may we pursue,
though joys within our grasp be few,
this joyful hope, our comfort make
His resurrection to partake:
To reign with our arisen Lord,
in Whom eternal life is stored,
Himself, our King, our shield in strife,
our rest in death, our Life of life.

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Text attr. Eliza Humphreys
Tune Majesty
alt. Creation
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809);
ad. Dulcimer, or New York Collection of Sacred Music, 1850, alt.

Sunday before Easter.

Almighty and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility; mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.