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    The Christian Book of Mystical Verses
    The Christian Book of Mystical Verses
    The Christian Book of Mystical Verses
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    The Christian Book of Mystical Verses

    By A. W. Tozer

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    2011 Reprint of 1963 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Selected and with an introduction and notes by A.W. Tozer. The purpose of this book is to bring together in one convenient volume some of the best devotional verse the English language affords, and thus to make available to present day Christians a rich spiritual heritage which the greater number of them for various reasons do not now enjoy. Includes works by Isaac Watts, Oliver Wendell Holmes, F.W. Faber, Milman, Shirley, Wesley, Rossetti, Gerhardt, Pollock, Tate, Brady, Tersteegen, Ware, Nicolai, Bonar and others. Tozer served 44 years of ministry, associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, a Protestant evangelical denomination; 33 of those years were served as a pastor in a number of churches. He is the author of dozens of books, two of which, The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy, are considered classics. His books impress on the reader the possibility and necessity for a deeper relationship with God.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateJun 28, 2013
    ISBN9781627932073
    The Christian Book of Mystical Verses
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    A. W. Tozer

    The late Dr. A. W. Tozer was well known in evangelical circles both for his long and fruitful editorship of the Alliance Witness as well as his pastorate of one of the largest Alliance churches in the Chicago area. He came to be known as the Prophet of Today because of his penetrating books on the deeper spiritual life.

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      The Christian Book of Mystical Verses - A. W. Tozer

      Adoration of the Godhead Eternal Power

      ETERNAL POWER!

      Eternal Power, whose high abode

      Becomes the grandeur of a God:

      Infinite lengths beyond the bounds

      Where stars revolve their little rounds:

      Thee while the first archangel sings,

      He hides his face behind his wings:

      And ranks of shining thrones around

      Fall worshipping, and spread the ground.

      Lord, what shall earth and ashes do?

      We would adore our Maker too;

      From sin and dust to Thee we cry,

      The Great, the Holy, and the High.

      Earth, from afar, hath heard Thy fame,

      And worms have learn’d to lisp Thy Name;

      But O! the glories of Thy mind

      Leave all our soaring thoughts behind.

      God is in heaven, and men below:

      Be short our tunes; our words be few:

      A solemn reverence checks our songs,

      And praise sits silent on our tongues.

      –ISSAC WATTS, 1674-1748

      LORD OF ALL BEING

      Lord of all being, throned afar,

      Thy glory flames from sun and star;

      Center and soul of every sphere,

      Yet to each loving heart how near.

      Sun of our life, Thy quickening ray

      Sheds on our path the glow of day;

      Star of our hope, Thy softened light

      Cheers the long watches of the night.

      Our midnight is Thy smile withdrawn;

      Our noontide is Thy gracious dawn;

      Our rainbow arch, Thy mercy’s sign;

      All, save the clouds of sin, are Thine.

      Lord of all life, below, above,

      Whose light is truth, whose warmth is love,

      Before Thy ever blazing throne

      We ask no luster of our own.

      Grant us Thy truth to make us free,

      And kindling hearts that burn for Thee,

      Till all Thy living altars claim

      One holy light, one heavenly flame.

      –OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 1809-1894

      ADORATION

      Almighty One! I bend in dust before Thee;

      Even so veiled cherubs bend;

      In calm and still devotion I adore Thee,

      All-wise, all-present Friend!

      Thou to the earth its emerald robes hast given,

      Or curtained it in snow;

      And the bright sun, and the soft moon in heaven,

      Before Thy presence bow.

      Thou Power sublime! whose throne is firmly seated

      On stars and glowing suns;

      O, could I praise Thee,—could my soul, elated,

      Waft Thee seraphic tones, —

      Had I the lyres of angels, —could I bring Thee

      An offering worthy Thee, —

      In what bright notes of glory would I sing Thee,

      Blest notes of ecstasy!

      Eternity! Eternity! how solemn,

      How terrible the sound!

      Here, leaning on thy promises, —a column

      Of strength, —may I be found,

      O, let my heart be ever Thine, while beating,

      As when ‘twill cease to beat!

      Be Thou my portion, till that awful meeting

      When I my God shall greet!

      –SIR JOHN BOWRING, 1792-1872

      THE UNITY OF GOD

      One God! one Majesty!

      There is no God but Thee!

      Unbounded, unextended Unity!

      Awful in unity,

      O God! we worship Thee,

      More simply one, because supremely Three!

      Dread, unbeginning One!

      Single, yet not alone,

      Creation hath not set Thee on a higher throne.

      Unfathomable Sea!

      All life is out of Thee,

      And Thy life is Thy blissful Unity.

      All things that from Thee run,

      All works that Thou hast done,

      Thou didst in honour of Thy being One.

      And by Thy being One,

      Ever by that alone,

      Couldst Thou do, and doest, what Thou hast done.

      We from Thy oneness come,

      Beyond it cannot roam,

      And in Thy oneness find our one eternal home.

      Blest be Thy Unity!

      All joys are one to me,—

      The joy that there can be no other God than Thee!

      –FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER, 1814-1863

      THE HOLY TRINITY

      O Blessed Trinity!

      Thy children dare to lift their hearts to Thee,

      And bless Thy triple Majesty!

      Holy Trinity!

      Blessed Equal Three,

      One God, we praise Thee.

      O Blessed Trinity!

      Holy, unfathomable, infinite,

      Thou art all Life and Love and Light.

      Holy Trinity!

      Blessed Equal Three,

      One God, we praise Thee.

      O Blessed Trinity!

      God of a thousand attributes! we see

      That there is no one good but Thee.

      Holy Trinity!

      Blessed Equal Three,

      One God, we praise Thee.

      O Blessed Trinity!

      In our astonished reverence we confess

      Thine uncreated loveliness.

      Holy Trinity!

      Blessed Equal Three,

      One God, we praise Thee.

      O Blessed Trinity!

      O simplest Majesty! O Three in One!

      Thou art for ever God alone.

      Holy Trinity!

      Blessed Equal Three,

      One God, we praise Thee.

      O Blessed Trinity!

      The Fountain of the Godhead, in repose,

      For ever rests, for ever flows.

      Holy Trinity!

      Blessed Equal Three,

      One God, we praise Thee.

      O Blessed Trinity!

      O Unbegotten Father! give us tears

      To quench our love, to calm our fears.

      Holy Trinity!

      Blessed Equal Three,

      One God, we praise Thee.

      O Blessed Trinity!

      Bright Son! who art the Father’s mind displayed,

      Thou art begotten and not made.

      Holy Trinity!

      Blessed Equal Three,

      One God, we praise Thee.

      O Blessed Trinity!

      Coequal Spirit! wondrous Paraclete!

      By Thee the Godhead is complete.

      Holy Trinity!

      Blessed Equal Three,

      One God, we praise Thee.

      O Blessed Trinity!

      We praise Thee, bless Thee, worship Thee as one.

      Yet Three are on the single

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