In heaven, One God in Trinity!
As here on earth, when men withstood,
The Spirit, Water, and the Blood,
Made my Lord’s Incarnation good:
So let the antitypes in me
Elected, bought, and sealed for free,
Be owned, saved, sainted by You Three!
Herbert and Vaughan were in the seventeenth century what Heber and Keble were in the nineteenth.
They set the tone of the Church of England, and they revealed with no inefficient or temporary effect to the uncultured and the unlearned the true refinement of worship. They united delicacy of taste in the choice of ornament and of music with culture of expression and of reserve, and they showed that this was not incompatible with devoted work and life.[90]
Henry More (1614-87) ‘the Platonist,’ whom Professor Palgrave calls ‘the most interesting figure among our poetical mystics,’ owes his place in our hymn-books to John Wesley, who made from one of More’s ‘Divine Hymns’ two numbers in his Collection