The precious promise made to all,
For Britain’s isle we claim;
O that we on thy name may call,
And magnify thy name!
Preserve a people in our land
To make thy goodness known,
And worship, while the world shall stand,
The glorious Three in One.
The precious promise made to all
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “All the isles of the heathen shall worship him.”—[Zeph.] ii. 11. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 105.
Publishing: Public Domain