completing one of the noblest hymns in the language.
Another hymn of Isaac Watts was enriched by passing through the hands of John Wesley. Besides correcting minor infelicities and curtailing its impracticable length, he rewrote the third stanza of the very popular hymn, “Come, ye that love the Lord,” transforming Watts’
“The God that rules on high
And thunders when he please,
That rides upon the stormy sky
And manages the seas,”
into
“The God that rules on high,
That all the earth surveys,
That rides upon the stormy sky