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In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left, / The bosom of his Father, and assumed / A servant's form, though he had reigned a king, / In realms of glory, ere the worlds were made, / Or the creating words, "Let there be light" / In heaven were uttered. But though veiled in flesh, / His Deity and his Omnipotence, / Were manifest in miracles. Disease / Fled at his bidding, and the buried dead / Rose from the sepulchre, reanimate, / At his command, or, on the passing bier / Sat upright, when he touched it. But he came, / Not for this only, but to introduce / A glorious dispensation, in the place / Of types and shadows of the Jewish code.
Upon the mount, and round Jerusalem, / He taught a purer, and a holier law, -- / His everlasting Gospel, which is yet / To fill the earth with gladness; for all climes / Shall feel its influence, and shall own its power.