Glorious in Thy saints appear. [Holiness desired.] A cento in 2 stanzas of 4 lines which appeared in Hedge & Huntington's Unitarian Hymns for the Church of Christ, Boston, U.S., 1853, No. 64; H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, No. 95, &c. It is from an anonymous hymn beginning "Abba Father, God of love," in 6 stanzas of 4 lines in Hymns for Public Worship on the General Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion, Salisbury, 1778, and commences with stanza iii. This collection is known to the American Unitarian collections as the Salisbury Collection. [William T. Brooke]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)