Hymn: Praise to the Holiest in the height
- Title: Praise to the Holiest in the height
- First Line: Praise to the Holiest in the height
- Hymnal: The Hymnal: Revised and Enlarged as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892
- Denomination: (Protestant) Episcopal Church
- Publisher: The Century Co.
- Publication Date: 1894
Author(s)
- Author Name: John Henry Newman
- Born: 1801
- Died: 1890
- Gender: M
Full Text
1 Praise to the Holiest in the height And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways. 2 O loving wisdom of our God! When all was sin and shame, A second Adam to the fight And to the rescue came. 3 O wisest love! that flesh and blood, Which did in Adam fail, Should strive afresh against the foe, Should strive and should prevail: 4 And that a higher gift than grace Should flesh and blood refine; God's presence and His very Self, And essence all-divine. 5 O generous love! that He, Who smote In Man for man the foe,; The double agony in Man For man should undergo; 6 And in the garden secretly, And on the cross on high, Should teach His brethren, and inspire To suffer and to die. 7 Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways. Amen.