{"id":25165,"date":"2025-06-19T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25165"},"modified":"2025-06-19T03:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:22:00","slug":"the-lord-descending-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/06\/the-lord-descending-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord, Descending From Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 The Lord, descending from above,<br \/>\nInvites his children near,<br \/>\nWhile power, and truth, and boundless love<br \/>\nDisplay their glories here.<\/p>\n<p>2 Here, in thy gospel\u2019s wondrous frame,<br \/>\nFresh wisdom we pursue;<br \/>\nA thousand angels learn thy name,<br \/>\nBeyond whate\u2019er they knew.<\/p>\n<p>3 Thy name is writ in fairest lines;<br \/>\nThy wonders here we trace;<br \/>\nWisdom through all the mystery shines,<br \/>\nAnd shines in Jesus\u2019 face.<\/p>\n<p>4 The law its best obedience owes<br \/>\nTo our incarnate God;<br \/>\nAnd thy revenging justice shows<br \/>\nIts honours in his blood.<\/p>\n<p>5 But still the lustre of thy grace<br \/>\nOur warmer thoughts employs;<br \/>\nGilds the whole scene with brighter rays,<br \/>\nAnd more exalts our joys.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25165\" 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 The Lord, descending from above,<br \/>\nInvites his children near,<br \/>\nWhile power, and truth, and boundless love<br \/>\nDisplay their glories here.<\/p>\n<p>2 Here, in thy gospel\u2019s wondrous frame,<br \/>\nFresh wisdom we pursue;<br \/>\nA thousand angels learn thy name,<br \/>\nBeyond whate\u2019er they knew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279,1282],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-25165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-triune-jehovah","category-isaac-watts-hymns","tag-divine-worship","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25165","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=25165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25168,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25165\/revisions\/25168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}