Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again
Text:Lord, when thou didst ascend on high

P68b. Lord, when thou didst ascend on high

1 Lord, when thou didst ascend on high,
Ten Thousand Angels fill'd the Sky:
Those heav'nly Guards around Thee wait,
Like Chariots that attend thy State.

2 Not Sinai's Mountain could appear
More glorious when the Lord was there;
While he pronounc'd his dreadful Law,
And struck the chosen Tribes with Awe.

3 How bright the Triumph none can tell,
When the rebellious Pow'rs of Hell,
That Thousand Souls had captive made,
Were all in Chains like Captives led.

4 Rais'd by his Father to the Throne,
He sent the promis'd Spirit down,
With Gifts and Grace for Rebel-Men,
That GOD might dwell on Earth again.

Text Information
First Line: Lord, when thou didst ascend on high
Language: English
Publication Date: 1740
Scripture:
Topic: Ascension of Christ; God: great and good; God: his power and majesty (4 more...)
Tune Information
(No tune information)



Media
More media are available on the text authority page.

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.