GOD is gone up on high With a triumphant noise; The clarions of the sky Proclaim the angelic joys!
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing, Glory ascribe to glory’s King.
All power to our great Lord Is by the Father given; By angel hosts adored, He reigns supreme in Heaven:
High on His holy seat He bears the righteous sway; His foes beneath His feet Shall sink and die away:
His foes and ours are one, Satan, the world, and sin: But He shall tread them down, And bring His kingdom in:
Till all the earth, renewed In righteousness divine, With all the hosts of God In one great chorus join.
Charles Wesley, 1707-88