His blood can make the foulest clean,
His blood availed for me.
So Thomas Olivers at the end of his great anthem to the God of Abraham adds his own voice to the voices of the celestial choir—
The whole triumphant host
Give thanks to God most high:
‘Hail, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,’
They ever cry:
Hail, Abraham’s God and mine!
I join the heavenly lays.
The contrast between the liturgical hymn written for others to sing and the hymn of personal experience, the pouring out of the soul before God, is well illustrated in the Psalter; e.g. compare Ps. cxv.—