The Lord of Hosts Himself alone

Verse 1
The Lord of hosts himself alone
Worthy to be rever’d we own,
By earth and heaven ador’d:
Let all the One true God proclaim,
Worship the dread Jehovah’s name,
Bow down to Christ the Lord.

Verse 2
A sanctuary the faithful find,
A refuge from the storm and wind,
In Christ the Lord most high:
But who refuse on him to call,
Shall on the stone of stumbling fall,
And unconverted die.

Verse 3
Rock of offence at first he was:
And Christians stumbling at the cross
Deny whom Jews denied:
They will not know that Christ is he,
Or the supreme Jehovah see
In Jesus crucified.

Verse 4
But Jesus to his church is known,
Jesus the precious corner-stone,
By Israel disallow’d;
Jehovah seen, and manifest,
God over all for ever blest,
Thou art my Lord my God!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “‘Sanctify the LORD OF HOSTS HIMSELF,* and let HIM be your fear, and let HIM be your dread: and HE shall be for a sanctuary; but for a STONE OF STUMBLING and ROCK OF OFFENCE to both houses of Israel.’—Isa. viii. 13, 14. ‘The stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner: and a STONE OF STUMBLING, and ROCK OF OFFENCE.’—1 Pet. ii. 7, 8.” Introduced in Charles Wesley, Hymns on the Trinity (Bristol: William Pine, 1767). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 7 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 205.
Publishing: Public Domain