By A Collection of Hymns

      6-8s. SECOND PART.
      1 TO thee, great God of love! I bow,
      And prostrate in thy sight adore;
      By faith I see thee passing now;
      I have, but still I ask for more,
      A glimpse of love cannot suffice,
      My soul for all thy presence cries.

      2 I cannot see thy face, and live,
      Then let me see thy face, and die!
      Now, Lord, my gasping spirit receive,
      Give me on eagles' wings to fly,
      With eagles' eyes on thee to gaze,
      And plunge into the glorious blaze.

      3 The fulness of my vast reward
      A blest eternity shall be;
      But hast thou not on earth prepared
      Some better thing than this for me?
      What, but one drop! one transient sight!
      I want a sun, a sea of light.

      4 Moses thy backward parts might view,
      But not a perfect sight obtain;
      The Gospel doth thy fulness show
      To us, by the commandment slain;
      The dead to sin shall find the grace,
      The pure in heart shall see thy face.

      5 More favoured than the saints of old,
      Who now by faith approach to thee
      Shall all with open face behold
      In Christ the glorious Deity;
      Shall see, and put the Godhead on,
      The nature of thy sinless Son.

      6 This, this is our high calling's prize!
      Thine image in thy Son I claim;
      And still to higher glories rise,
      Till all transformed I know thy name,
      And glide to all my heaven above,
      My highest heaven in Jesu's love.