Hymns · 1762

The Name we still acknowledge

Details

Hymnal / album Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2

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 “She shall sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.”—[Hosea] ii. 15. 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 75.

Scripture connections

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Exodus 14:13-14 Exodus 14:21-28 Psalm 66:6 Psalm 106:8-10 Psalm 136:13-15 Isaiah 51:10

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Isaiah 63:13 Hosea 2:15 Matthew 11:12 Matthew 11:28-29 Romans 8:37 Hebrews 2:3 Hebrews 4:9-11

Lyrics

Verse 1
The name we still acknowledge
That burst our bonds in sunder,
And loudly sing (Hosea 2:15)
Our conquering King
In songs of joy and wonder:
In every day’s deliverance
Our Jesus we discover;
’Tis he, ’tis he!
That smote the sea,
And led us safely over. (Exodus 14:21-22, Ps. 66:6, Ps. 106:8-10, Ps. 136:13-14, Isa. 51:10, Isa. 63:13)

Verse 2
In sin’s and Satan’s onsets
He still our souls secures,
Our guardian God
Looks thro’ the cloud,
And blasts our fierce pursuers: (Ex. 14:24-28, Ps. 136:15)
He fights his people’s battles (Ex. 14:14)
Omnipotently glorious,
He fights alone,
And makes his own
O’er earth and hell victorious. (Rom. 8:37)

Verse 3
Partakers of his triumph
In vehement expectation
We now stand still (Ex. 14:13)
To prove his will,
And see his great salvation; (Heb. 2:3)
With violent faith and patience
To seize the kingdom given, (Matt. 11:12)
The purchas’d rest
In Jesu’s breast, (Matt. 11:28-29, Heb. 4:9-11)
The inheritance of heaven.