Hymns, #742

Various Aspects of the Inner Life - The Tripartite Man

Eng/Kor:742  Chin:537  Span:314  Rus:477  Tag:742  Fra:-  Por:345

Lyrics:Witness Lee
Music:From Katholisches Gesangbuch, 1774
Meter:8.8.8.8.

Hymns using same tune:

#374, #610, #814, #979

 
 1 

Man is a being of three parts,

The body, soul, and spirit too,

Th' eternal purpose to fulfill

With God's inheritance in view.

 
 2 

The body is the outward part

That man a world-sense may possess;

Thus he may touch the outward things

And bodily himself express.

 
 3 

The soul within — the inward part —

Is but the very self of man;

The sense of self it gives to him

To touch the psychic world of man.

 
 4 

The spirit is the inmost part

With which the Lord he may receive;

The sense of God it gives to man

That he the spirit-world perceive.

 
 5 

Within the soul of man there are

The mind, emotion, and the will;

These are the functions for the man

His human nature to fulfill.

 
 6 

Within the spirit of the man

Are found the conscience, fellowship,

And intuition, which thereby

The man to worship God equip.

 
 7 

The man must exercise his soul

To choose that God he may possess,

And by his spirit God partake,

And thru his body God express.

 
 8 

Man's spirit had to be reborn

With life divine to him conveyed;

His soul must be transformed by God,

His body like Christ's body made.

 
 9 

'Tis by these steps of work divine

In each of man's three separate parts

That man is mingled with the Lord

And His expression full imparts.

 
Hymn #742