All glory to God in the sky

All glory to God in the sky. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns for the Nativity of our Lord (1744), in five 8-line stanzas, and reprinted in full in John Wesley*’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), in the Section ‘For Believers Rejoicing’; and in subsequent Wesleyan Methodist hymnbooks. The text in 1744 was as follows: All Glory to God in the Sky,  And Peace upon Earth be restor’d!O Jesus, exalted on high,  Appear our omnipotent Lord:Who meanly in Bethlehem born,  Didst stoop to redeem a lost Race,Once more to thy Creature return,  And reign in thy Kingdom of Grace. When Thou in our Flesh didst appear,  All Nature acknowledg’d thy...