639b. Join all the glorious names

1 Join all the glorious names
Of wisdom, love, and power,
That ever mortals knew,
That angels ever bore:
All are too mean to speak his worth,
Too mean to set my Savior forth.

2 But O what gentle terms,
What condescending ways
Doth our Redeemer use
To teach his heavenly grace!
Mine eyes with joy ad wonder see
What forms of love he bears for me.

3 Great Prophet of my God,
My tongue would bless thy name;
By thee the joyful news
Of our salvation came:
The joyful news of sins forgiven,
Of hell subdued and peace with heaven.

4 Jesus, my great High-Priest,
Offered his blood and died;
My guilty conscience seeks
No sacrifice beside:
His powerful blood did once atone,
And now it pleads before the throne.

5 My dear almighty Lord,
My conqueror and my king,
Thy scepter and thy sword,
Thy reign of grace, I sing;
Thine is the power: behold I sit
In willing bonds before thy feet.

6 Now let my soul arise,
and tread the tempter down;
my Captain leads me forth
To conquest and a crown.
A feeble saint shall win the day,
Though death and hell obstruct the way.

7 Should all the hosts of death,
And powers of hell unknown,
Put their most dreadful forms
Of rage and mischief on,
I shall be safe, for Christ displays
Superior power, and guardian grace.

Text Information
First Line: Join all the glorious names
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748
Meter: 66 66 88
Language: English
Publication Date: 2006
Tune Information
Name: EASTVIEW
Composer: James Vernon Lee, 1892-1959
Meter: 66 66 88
Key: A Major
Copyright: © 1959 The United Reformed Church



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