Your God and king adore;
Mortals give Thanks and sing,
And triumph ever-more.
Lift up your Hearts, lift up your Voice,
Rejoice, again I say, Rejoice.
2 Jesus the Saviour Reigns,
  
The God of Truth and Love;
  
When he had purg'd our Stains,
  
He took his Seat above;
  
Lift up your Hearts, lift up your Voice,
  
Rejoice, again I say, Rejoice.
3 His Kingdom cannot fail,
  
He rules o'er Earth and Heav'n;
  
The Keys of Death and Hell
  
Are to our Jesus giv'n.
  
Lift up your Hearts, lift up your Voice,
  
Rejoice, again I say, Rejoice.
4 He sits at God's Right-Hand
  
Till all his Foes submit,
  
And bow to his Command,
  
And fall beneath his Feet.
  
Lift up your Hearts, lift up your Voice,
  
Rejoice, again I say, Rejoice.
5 He all his Foes shall quell,
  
Shall all our sins destroy,
  
And ev'ry Bosom swell
  
With pure seraphic Joy.
  
Lift up your Hearts, lift up your Voice,
  
Rejoice, again I say, Rejoice.
6 Rejoice in glorious Hope;
  
Jesus the Judge shall come,
  
And take his Servants up,
  
To their eternal Home.
  
Lift up your Hearts, lift up your Voice,
  
Rejoice, again I say, Rejoice.
                  Charles Wesley
                  #899 Methodist Episcopal Hymnal (1870 edition)
  
    <idle musing>
    OK, verses 4 & 5 are new to me. Some hymnals will include verse 5, but in order to find verses 4 & 5 together, you have to go back to 1791 on the hymnary.org site. (I really wish they had a digital version of the 1890 hymnal I'm using!)
    </idle musing>
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