MY GOD, HOW WONDERFUL THOU ART

My God, how wonderful thou art,\nThy majesty how bright,\nHow beautiful thy mercy-seat\nIn depths of burning light!\n2. How dread are thine eternal years,\nO everlasting Lord!\nBy prostrate spirits day and night\nIncessantly adored.\n3. How beautiful, how beautiful\nThe sight of thee must be,\nThine endless wisdom, boundless power\nAnd awful purity!\n4. O, how I fear thee living God!\nWith deepest, tenderest fears,\nAnd worship thee with trembling hope,\nAnd penitential tears!\n5. Yet I may love thee too, O Lord,\nAlmighty as thou art,\nFor thou has stooped to ask of me\nThe love of my poor heart.\n6. No earthly father loves like thee,\nNo mother, e’er so mild,\nBears and forbear sas thou hast done\nWith me thy sinful child.\n7. Father of Jesus, love’s reward,\nWhat rapture will it be,\nProstrate before thy throne to lie,\nAnd gaze and gaze on thee!