oness,
but some needless and imprudent expressions in a satirical poem, "The
Mitre," revealing his hostility to the union of church and state, cost
him her favor, and his contention against John Wesley's law that none
but the regular parish ministers had the right to administer the
sacraments, led to his complete separation from both the Wesleys. He
subsequently became the pastor of a small church of Dissenters in
Canterbury, where he died, in January, 1792. His piety uttered itself
when near his happy death, and his last words were a Gloria.

All hail the power of Jesus' name!
Let angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
To crown Him Lord of all.

Ye seed of Israel's chosen race,
Ye ransomed of the fall,
Hail Him Who saves you by His grace,
And crown Him Lord of all.

Sinners, whose love can ne'er forget
The wormwood and the gall,
Go, spread your trophies at His feet,
And crown Him Lord of all.

Let every tribe and every tongue
That bound creation's call,
Now shout the universal song,
The crowned Lord of all.

With two disused stanzas omitted, the hymn as it stands differs from the
original chiefly in the last stanza, though in the second the initial
line is now transposed to read--

Ye chosen seed of Israel's race.

The fourth stanza now reads--

Let every kindred, every tribe
On this terrestrial ball
To Him all majesty ascribe,
And crown Him Lord of all.

And what is now the favorite last stanza is the one added by Dr.
Rippon--

O that with yonder sacred throng
We at His feet may fall,
And join the everlasting song,
And crown Him Lord of all.

_THE TUNE._

Everyone now calls it "Old Coronation," and it is entitled to the
adjective by this time, being considerably more than a hundred years
of age. It was composed in the very year of Perronet's death and one
wonders just how long the hymn and tune waited before they came
together; for Heaven evidently meant them to be wedded for all time.
This is an American opinion, and no reflection on the earlier English
melody of "Miles Lane," composed during Perronet's lifetime by William
Shrubsole and published with the words in 1780 in the _Gospel Magazine_.
There is also a fine processional tune sung in the English Church to
Perronet's hymn.

The author of "Coronation" was Oliver Holden, a self-taught musician,
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