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627. O the Depth of Love Divine

Text: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Music: Carlton R. Young
Tune: STOOKEY, Meter: 76.76.77.76

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1.	O the depth of love divine, 
	the unfathomable grace! 
	Who shall say how bread and wine 
	God into us conveys! 
	How the bread his flesh imparts, 
	how the wine transmits his blood, 
	fills his faithful people's hearts 
	with all the life of God! 

2.	Let the wisest mortals show 
	how we the grace receive; 
	feeable elements bestow 
	a power not theirs to give. 
	Who explains the wondrous way, 
	how through these the virtue came? 
	These the virtue did convey, 
	yet still remain the same.

3.	How can spirits heavenward rise, 
	by earthly matter fed, 
	drink herewith divine supplies 
	and eat immortal bread? 
	Ask the Father's wisdom how: 
	Christ who did the means ordain; 
	angels round our altars bow 
	to search it out, in vain. 

4.	Sure and real is the grace, 
	the manner be unknown; 
	only meet us in thy ways 
	and perfect us in one. 
	Let us taste the heavenly powers, 
	Lord, we ask for nothing more. 
	Thine to bless,' tis only ours 
	to wonder and adore.

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