The Lives of the British Hymn-writers: Being Personal Memoirs Derived Largely from Unpublished Materials ...Farncombe, 1914 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abney Park afterwards appeared Ashhurst Bapt beautiful blessed Book Bradbury Bradbury's Bunhill Fields Bury Street Castle Chapel Cheshunt Christ Christian Church Cong congregation Daniel Burgess death delight died Dissenters Divine Songs Doctrine Doddridge edition eternal father fear Gibbons glory Gospel Gospel Magazine grace Hall Hallows Staining hand heart heaven heavenly Hedingham Hedingham Castle Hertford Holy honour hymns Improvement Isaac Watts Jacobites Joseph Joshua Sylvester Lady Abney letter lines London Lord Mark Lane mind minister Miss Singer never Number of hymns Olney Passions pastor Philip Doddridge Pinners pious pleasure poem praise prayer preached Psalms published pulpit religion replied Rowe's Samuel says sermon sing Sir John Hartopp Sir Thomas Abney soul Southampton Spirit Spiritual Songs Stev Stoke Newington sweet Theobalds Thou thought verse Water Stratford Watts wrote Watts's Watts's hymns William Wilson write written
Popular passages
Page 82 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 ' ' Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus!
Page 87 - See, from His head, His hands, His feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down ; Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown...
Page 121 - SWEET is the work, my God, my King, To praise thy name, give thanks and sing ; To show thy love by morning light, And talk of all thy truth at night.
Page 134 - How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Page 84 - COME, we that love the Lord, And let our joys be known ; Join in a song with sweet accord, And thus surround the throne.
Page 121 - Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home.
Page 159 - Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease ? While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas? 3 Are there no foes for me to face ? Must I not stem the flood ? Is this vile world a friend to grace, To help me on to God...
Page 248 - O GOD of Bethel ! by whose hand Thy people still are fed ; Who, through this weary pilgrimage, Hast all our fathers led : 2 Our vows, our prayers, we now present Before thy throne of grace : God of our fathers! be the God Of their succeeding race.
Page 87 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God; All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Page 121 - GOD, our Help in ages past, Our Hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal Home...