By A Collection of Hymns

      8s & 6s.
      1 O GLORIOUS hope of perfect love!
      It lifts me up to things above,
      It bears on eagles' wings;
      It gives my ravished soul a taste,
      And makes me for some moments feast
      With Jesu's priests and kings.

      2 Rejoicing now in earnest hope,
      I stand, and from the mountain-top
      See all the land below;
      Rivers of milk and honey rise,
      And all the fruits of Paradise
      In endless plenty grow.

      3 A land of corn, and wine, and oil,
      Favoured with God's peculiar smile,
      With every blessing blest;
      There dwells the Lord our Righteousness,
      And keeps his own in perfect peace,
      And everlasting rest.

      4 O that I might at once go up!
      No more on this side Jordan stop,
      But now the land possess;
      This moment end my legal years,
      Sorrows, and sins, and doubt, and fears,
      A howling wilderness.

      5 Now, O my Joshua, bring me in!
      Cast out thy foes; the inbred sin,
      The carnal mind, remove;
      The purchase of thy death divide!
      Give me with all the sanctified
      The heritage of love!