O Thou whom all Thy saints adore

Verse 1
O thou, whom all thy saints adore,
We now with all thy saints agree,
And bow our inmost souls before
Thy glorious, awful majesty.

Verse 2
Thee King of nations we proclaim,
Who would not our great sovereign fear?
We long t’ experience all thy name,
And now we come to meet thee here.

Verse 3
We come, great God, to seek thy face,
And for thy loving-kindness wait,
And O! How dreadful is this place!
’Tis God’s own house, ’tis heaven’s gate.

Verse 4
Tremble our hearts to find thee nigh,
To thee our trembling hearts aspire;
And lo! We see descend from high
The pillar, and the flame of fire!

Verse 5
Still let it on th’ assembly stay,
And all the house with glory fill,
To Canaan’s bounds point out our way,
And bring us to thy holy-hill.

Verse 6
There let us all with Jesus stand,
And join the general church above,
And take our seats at thy right-hand,
And sing thy[1] everlasting love.

Verse 7
Come, Lord, our souls are on the wing,
Now, on thy great white throne appear,
And let my eyes behold my King,
And let me see my Saviour there!

[1] Wesley changed “thy” to “thine” in 1745.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "Entering into the Congregation." Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742), published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1742). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 2 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 226.
Publishing: Public Domain