{"id":25140,"date":"2025-06-18T23:53:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25140"},"modified":"2025-06-18T23:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:53:28","slug":"immortal-invisible-god-only-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/06\/immortal-invisible-god-only-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 Immortal, invisible, God only wise,<br \/>\nin light inaccessible hid from our eyes,<br \/>\nmost blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,<br \/>\nalmighty, victorious, thy great name we praise.<\/p>\n<p>2 Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light,<br \/>\nnor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might;<br \/>\nthy justice like mountains high soaring above<br \/>\nthy clouds, which are fountains of goodness and love.<\/p>\n<p>3 To all life thou givest, to both great and small;<br \/>\nin all life thou livest, the true life of all;<br \/>\nwe blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,<br \/>\nand wither and perish but naught changeth thee.<\/p>\n<p>4 Great Father of glory, pure Father of light,<br \/>\nthine angels adore thee, all veiling their sight;<br \/>\nall praise we would render, O help us to see<br \/>\n&#8217;tis only the splendor of light hideth thee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25140\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Immortal, invisible, God only wise,<br \/>\nin light inaccessible hid from our eyes,<br \/>\nmost blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,<br \/>\nalmighty, victorious, thy great name we praise.<\/p>\n<p>2 Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light,<br \/>\nnor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might;<br \/>\nthy justice like mountains high soaring above<br \/>\nthy clouds, which are fountains of goodness and love.<\/p>\n<p>3 To all life thou givest, to both great and small;<br \/>\nin all life thou livest, the true life of all;<br \/>\nwe blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,<br \/>\nand wither and perish but naught changeth thee.<\/p>\n<p>4 Great Father of glory, pure Father of light,<br \/>\nthine angels adore thee, all veiling their sight;<br \/>\nall praise we would render, O help us to see<br \/>\n&#8217;tis only the splendor of light hideth thee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-25140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-triune-jehovah","tag-divine-worship","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25143,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25140\/revisions\/25143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}