And view at once, how Death by sin is brought!

And how from Death a better Life doth rise;

How this, GOD's Justice and his Mercy taught;

We, this decree, would praise, as right and wise!

But we (that measure times, by First and Last)

The sight of things successively do take;

When GOD, on all at once, His view doth cast;

And of all times, doth but one instant make.

All in Himself, as in a glass, He sees,

And from Him, by Him, through Him, all things be;