1 Blest be the everlasting God the Father of our Lord! Be his abounding mercy praised, his majesty adored! 2 When from the dead he raised his Son, and called him to the sky, he gave our souls a lively hope that they should never die. 3 To an inheritance divine he taught our hearts to rise; 'tis uncorrupted, undefiled, unfading in the skies. 4 Saints by the power of God are kept, till the salvation come: we walk by faith as strangers here, but Christ shall call us home.