Where God doth dwell, sure heaven is there. J. Mason. Praise to, and Joy in God.] This cento in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866, and Dale's English Hymn Book, 1874, is compiled from Mason's Spiritual Songs, or Songs of Praise, 1683, thus:—stanzas i., ii. from Song 23, st, v.; stanzas iii.-v. from Song 24, stanzas i. ii.; stanza v. from Song 27, stanza iv., 1 l. 5-8 rewritten. The result is a pleasing hymn of Praise and Joy.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)