1 Blest Father, infinite in grace,
Source of eternal joy;
Thou leadst our hearts to that blest place
Where rest's without alloy.
2 There will Thy love find perfect rest,
Where all around is bliss.
Where all in Thee supremely blest,
Thy praise their service is.
3 Eternal love their portion is,
Where love has found its rest;
And, filled with Thee, the constant mind
Eternally is blest.
4 There Christ, the centre of the throng,
Shall in His glory shine:
But not an eye those hosts among
But sees His glory Thine.
5 Thy counsels too in all Thine own,
Fulfilled by pow'r divine,
Spread wide the glory of Thy throne,
Where all in glory shine.
6 Yet deeper, if a calmer, joy
The Father's love shall raise,
And ev'ry heart find sweet employ
In His eternal praise.
7 Nor is its sweetness now unknown,
Well proved in what it's done;
Our Father's love with joy we own
Revealed in Christ the Son.
Source: A Few Hymns and Some Spiritual Songs. Selected 1856, for the Little Flock. Revised, 1881 #178
Darby, John Nelson, M.A., youngest son of John Darby of Leap, King's Co., Ireland, was born at Westminster, Nov. 18, 1800; educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1819; and in due course was called to the Bar. He subsequently took Holy Orders; but in a short time allied himself with the Plymouth Brethren. In the exercise of his ministry amongst them he visited most parts of the world, and translated the Bible into English, French, and German. His published works, including a Synopsis of the Books of the Bible; Notes on Revelations, &c, are numerous. He died at Bournemouth, April 29, 1882.
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