Christ, whose glory fills the skies

Christ, whose glory fills the skies. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740) with the title ‘Morning Hymn’. It was used by Augustus Montague Toplady* in his Psalms and Hymns (1776), and was thought for some years to have been written by him. As James Montgomery* put it, when setting the record straight: ‘one of Charles Wesley’s loveliest progeny has been fathered upon Augustus Toplady’ (The Christian Psalmist, 1825). In the 1780 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists John Wesley* replaced verse 1 with a verse (2) from another hymn in the 1740 book beginning ‘Lord, how long, how long shall I’: O disclose Thy lovely face!...

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