Join all the glorious names

Join all the glorious names. Isaac Watts* (1674-1748). This was the last text in Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707), Book I, ‘Collected from the Holy Scriptures’. It makes a fitting conclusion to that book. It shared its title with the preceding text: ‘The Offices of Christ, from several Scriptures.’ It is one of five hymns at the end of Book I which refer to the titles or offices of Jesus, and is really a re-writing in 66.66.44.44. of the preceding Long Metre version. It had twelve stanzas. Most modern books include no more than seven. But CP included eleven, using stanza 1 to open each part of two six-stanza sections. The verse which it excluded was the original stanza 3: Array’d in...