Hymns · 1762

Eternal Lord of earth and skies

Details

Hymnal / album Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1

Publisher Farley

Copyright Public Domain (Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. The publication year, if correct, suggests that this work may be in public domain in the U.S..)

Notes Originally titled “There is no Saviour beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.”—[Isa.] xlv. 21, 22. 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 422.

Scripture connections

Expository

This passage is the main idea of the song

Isaiah 45:21-23

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Acts 4:12 Romans 14:11 Philippians 2:9-11 Colossians 1:20

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Matthew 11:25 Luke 10:21 John 3:16 Acts 17:24 Romans 5:1 Romans 5:18 Colossians 1:13 I Timothy 2:6 I John 2:2

Lyrics

Verse 1
Eternal Lord of earth and skies, (Matt. 11:25, Luke 10:21, Acts 17:24)
We wait thy Spirit’s latest call:
Bid all our fallen race arise, (Isa. 45:22)
(Thou who hast purchas’d life for all) (Rom. 5:18, I Tim. 2:6)
Sav’d by that wondrous look divine (Isa. 45:22)
Which makes thy full salvation mine.

Verse 2
Sole self-existent God supreme (Isa. 45:21-22)
Thee, Jesus, let the world confess, (Isa. 45:23, Rom. 14:11, Phil. 2:9-11)
Whose blood did the whole world redeem, (John 3:16, I John 2:2)
And seals the universal peace, (Col. 1:20, Rom. 5:1)
Whose only name, to sinners given, (Acts 4:12)
Snatches from hell, and lifts to heaven. (Col. 1:13)