True and faithful witness, thou
In righteousness hast sworn
Every knee to thee shall bow,
And every heart shall turn:
Girt with equity and might,
Arise t’ administer thy grace,
Claim the kingdoms in thy right,
And govern all our race.
True and faithful Witness, thou
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.”—[Isa.] xi. 5. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 385.
Publishing: Public Domain