Come, and Let Us Sweetly Join

Come, and let us sweetly join Christ to praise in hymns divine; Give we all, with one accord, Glory to our common Lord.

Hands, and hearts, and voices raise; Sing as in the ancient days; Antedate the joys above, Celebrate the feast of love.

Strive we, in affection strive; Let the purer flame revive, Such as in the martyrs glowed, Dying champions for their God.

We, like them, may live and love; Called we are their joys to prove, Sav'd with them from future wrath, Partners of like precious faith.

Sing we then in Jesus' name, Now as yesterday the same; One in every time and place, Full for all truth and grace.

We for Christ, our Master, stand, Lights in a benighted land: We our dying Lord confess; We are Jesus' witnesses.

Witnesses that Christ hath died, We with Him are crucified; Christ hath burst the bands of death, We His quick'ning Spirit breathe

Christ is now gone up on high, Thither all our wishes fly; Sits at God's right hand above There with Him we reign in love.