Join all the glorious names
Join all the glorious names. Isaac Watts* (1674-1748).
This is from the Second Edition of Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1709). It was entitled ‘The Same; as the 148th Psalm’, referring to the preceding hymn, Book I, CXLIX, entitled ‘The Offices of Christ from several Scriptures’. The present hymn was the last hymn in Book I, and the last of five hymns at the end of that Book which refer to the titles or offices of Jesus. It is a re-writing in 66.66.44.44. (‘as the 148th Psalm’) of the preceding Long Metre version. It had twelve stanzas. Each stanza, except the last, which has the word ‘Christ’, had an attribute, or more than one, in italics for emphasis:
1. Saviour
2. Redeemer
3. Angel
4...
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