Rejoice, the Lord is king

Rejoice, the Lord is king. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns for our Lord’s Resurrection (1746), in six 6-line stanzas, not in A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems (1744) as stated in JJ, p. 955. It was not included in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), but it appeared in the 1876 edition (‘Wesley’s Hymns’) and has been included in most major hymnbooks throughout the English-speaking world. The original stanza 5 is now generally omitted: He all his Foes shall quell,  Shall all our Sins destroy,And every Bosom swell  With pure Seraphic Joy;Lift up your Heart, Lift up your Voice,Rejoice, again, I say, rejoice. The full original text...