Come, Let Us Tune Our Loftiest Song

Come, let us tune our loftiest song
And raise to Christ our joyful strain;
Worship and thanks to Him belong,
Who reigns and shall forever reign.

His sovereign power our bodies made;
Our souls are His immortal breath;
And when His creatures sinned He bled
To save us from eternal death.

Burn, every breast with Jesus’ love;
Bound every heart with rapturous joy;
And saints on earth, with saints above,
Your voices in His praise employ.

Extol the Lamb with loftiest song;
Prolong for Him your cheerful strain;
Worship and thanks to Him belong,
Who reigns and shall forever reign.

Author: Philip Doddridge

Year: 1755

This hymn is a well-known work by Philip Doddridge (1702–1751), first published posthumously in his Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures (1755). Some hymnals attribute it jointly to Doddridge and John Wesley due to minor alterations in later editions, but the original text is Doddridge's.