Verse 1
Join all ye Friends of Jesus join
Your full exulting hearts with mine,
With mine your joyful Voices raise,
Attun’d to our Redeemer’s Praise,
Who crowns us still with Victory,
And now delights to honour me.
Verse 2
Me He hath counted for His Name
Worthy to suffer Wrong and Shame,
Condemn’d for Publishing my Lord,
Proscrib’d for Ministring his Word,
Untried unheard to Exile driven,
’Gainst all the Laws of Earth and Heaven.
Verse 3
Vainly in Our Protection join
The Laws both human and Divine,
While Those, who fill the Judge’s Chair,
T’ abuse their dread Commission dare,
Our helpless Innocency sell,
To glut the Priestly Rage of Hell.
Verse 4
But GOD in our Defence shall stand,
And skreen us with his own Right-hand,
The Lord, whom on our side we have,
Shall from unrighteous Judges save,
His injur’d Messengers confess,
And give his Suffering People Peace.
Verse 5
Wherefore of Him his People boasts,
The Prince of Peace, the Lord of Hosts,
Our Strength, and Confidence, and Power,
Our Light in Satan’s darkest Hour,
Our Glory in Reproach and Shame,
Our Guide and Saviour in the Flame.
Verse 6
Bound every Heart whom Christ inspires
And praise Him, praise Him in the Fires,
Him walking in the Furnace scan,
Whose Form is as the Son of Man,
And triumph, like the Faithful Three,
And shout our Guardian Deity.
Verse 7
Blessing, and Thanks to GOD most high,
And Love, and Might, and Majesty,
Ascribe Salvation to the Lamb,
The Spirit of Power and Grace proclaim,
The great Three-One let all things praise
In Glorious Everlasting Lays.