LET earth and Heaven combine, Angels and men agree, To praise in songs divine The incarnate Deity; Our God contracted to a span, Incomprehensibly made man.
He laid His glory by, He wrapped Him in our clay; Unmarked by human eye, The latent Godhead lay; Infant of days He here became, And bore the mild Emmanuel’s name.
Unsearchable the love That has the Saviour brought; Such grace is far above Mankind’s or angel’s thought: Suffice for us that God, we know, Our God, is manifest below.
He deigns in flesh to appear, Widest extremes to join; To bring our vileness near, And make us all divine: And we the life of God shall know, For God is manifest below.
Charles Wesley, 1707-88