Glory be to God on high

Glory be to God on high. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord (1744), in four 8-line stanzas. It was not included in John Wesley*’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), but appeared in the 1831 Supplement to that book and in subsequent Methodist hymnbooks. Its use outside Methodism has not been extensive in Britain, though it found a place in A&MCP. In the first extant edition of 1745 to text was as follows: Glory be to God on high,  And Peace on Earth descend;God comes down: He bows the Sky:  He shews himself our Friend!God th’Invisible appears,  God the Blest, the Great I AMSojourns in this Vale of...

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