Songs of praise the angels sang

Songs of praise the angels sang. James Montgomery* (1771-1854). First published in the Eighth Edition of Thomas Cotterill*’s A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Use (1819). It was entitled ‘God worthy of all Praise’. It was included in Montgomery’s The Christian Psalmist (1825), entitled ‘Glory to God in the Highest’, in which he chose it to conclude the selection. Later it was in his Original Hymns (1853), with a minor alteration of ‘can’ for ‘will’ (Stanza 4 line 1) to make a more emphatic question. The text in 1825 was as follows: Songs of praise the angels sang,Heaven with Hallelujah’s rang,When Jehovah’s work begun,When he spake, and it was done. Songs of praise...