Hymns

Let everlasting glories crown

by Isaac Watts·1707·Meter 8.8.8.8 (LM)

Based on Acts 4:12; Ps 3:8

1

Let everlasting glories crown
Thy head, my Savior and my Lord;
Thy hands have brought salvation down,
And writ the blessings in thy word.

2

What if we trace the globe around,
And search from Britain to Japan,
There shall be no religion found
So just to God, so safe for man.

3

In vain the trembling conscience seeks
Some solid ground to rest upon;
With long despair the spirit breaks,
Till we aply to Christ alone.

4

How well thy blessed truths agree!
How wise and holy thy commands!
Thy promises, how firm they be!
How firm our hope and comfort stands.

5

Not the feigned fields of heath'nish bliss
Could raise such pleasures in the mind;
Nor does the Turkish paradise
Pretend to joys so well refined.

6

Should all the forms that men devise
Assault my faith with treach'rous art,
I'd call them vanity and lies,
And bind the gospel to my heart.