Great God, who, hid from mortal sight

Great God, who, hid from mortal sight. Charles Coffin* (1676-1749), translated by John Chandler* (1806-1876). This is a translation from the Paris Breviary of 1736 of a hymn by Charles Coffin* beginning ‘O luce qui mortalibus’, found also in Coffin’s Hymni Sacri (1736). It was designated for Vespers on Sunday from Trinity to Advent. It was printed in the Latin text among the ‘Hymni Ecclesiastici’ in Chandler’s Hymns of the Primitive Church (1837), with a translation beginning: Oh! luce qui mortalibus                       O Thou, whose throne is hid from men Lates inaccessâ, Deus,                         By more than earthly rays, Praesente quo sancti tremunt              Before whose face...