What by the Lord of Hosts was said

Verse 1
What by the Lord of hosts was said,
Was by the Holy Ghost declar’d:
In majesty supreme array’d
The true Jehovah we regard,
And absolute divinity
Ascribe, eternal Spirit, to thee.

Verse 2
We that amidst a people dwell
Of harden’d hearts, and lips unclean,
Who see, and hear, yet will not feel,
Or know that blasphemy is sin,
But still thy dei y [deity] deny,
And speak against the Lord most high.

Verse 3
Their eyes against the light they close,
Their ears they stop against the word,
Their own felicity oppose
Opposing thee th’ Almighty Lord,
The Holy Ghost came down from heaven
To certify their sins forgiven.

Verse 4
The Spirit of an healthful mind
Freely they might in thee receive,
The cure of all their evils find;
But will not own their God and live,
’Till in their sins they die unheal’d,
And find their sure damnation seal’d.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “'Mine eyes have seen the LORD of HOSTS.... Also I heard the voice of the LORD saying, Go and tell this people, &c.'—Isa. vi. 5[–8]. 'Well SPAKE THE HOLY GHOST by Esaias the prophet, saying, Go unto this, &c.'—Acts xxviii. 26, 27.” 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 262.
Publishing: Public Domain