Now to the Lord a noble song
Now to the Lord a noble song. Isaac Watts* (1674-1748).
This hymn appeared in Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707), Book II, ‘Composed on Divine Subjects, Conformable to the Word of God’, with the title, ‘Glory and Grace in the Person of Christ’. It had six stanzas. Watts here takes up what is for him a common theme: that the revelation of God in Christ far exceeds the revelation of God in nature. It begins as a call to the praise and proclamation of God’s ‘boundless love’, which shines at its brightest in the face of Jesus.
The last stanza, addressed to the angels, is described in the Companion to RS (1999) as ‘something of an afterthought and not really integral to the theme of the rest’ (p...
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