Break of day in the eighteenth century. A history and a specimen of its first book of English sacred song. 300 hymns of dr. Watts, selected and arranged, with a sketch of their history, by C.T. Rust1880 |
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... Church on Earth 283-294 ... The Church in Glory The Church in Heaven ... 295-306 ... The Church Militant here THE ADVERTISEMENT . HE purpose I have in view in iv INDEX OF SUBJECTS . THE CHRISTIAN YEAR Morning and Evening The Lord's ...
... Church on Earth 283-294 ... The Church in Glory The Church in Heaven ... 295-306 ... The Church Militant here THE ADVERTISEMENT . HE purpose I have in view in iv INDEX OF SUBJECTS . THE CHRISTIAN YEAR Morning and Evening The Lord's ...
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... Church on Earth 283-294 ... The Church in Glory The Church in Heaven ... 295-306 ... The Church Militant here THE ADVERTISEMENT . HE purpose I have in view in iv INDEX OF SUBJECTS . THE CHRISTIAN YEAR Morning and Evening The Lord's ...
... Church on Earth 283-294 ... The Church in Glory The Church in Heaven ... 295-306 ... The Church Militant here THE ADVERTISEMENT . HE purpose I have in view in iv INDEX OF SUBJECTS . THE CHRISTIAN YEAR Morning and Evening The Lord's ...
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... Church Hymnals at least , that the nineteenth century hymns will exclude those of the eighteenth altogether . The first of these causes has stopped the sale of Dr. Watts ' Hymns ; the second threatens their complete banishment from ...
... Church Hymnals at least , that the nineteenth century hymns will exclude those of the eighteenth altogether . The first of these causes has stopped the sale of Dr. Watts ' Hymns ; the second threatens their complete banishment from ...
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... church or chapel in England . 2. This truly great man produced these hymns in the very darkest and deadest period of English Church history at a time which all historians look back upon with awe as the very darkest hour before the dawn ...
... church or chapel in England . 2. This truly great man produced these hymns in the very darkest and deadest period of English Church history at a time which all historians look back upon with awe as the very darkest hour before the dawn ...
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... Church will not receive his compositions , he will be most thankful to give them for the comfort and blessing of those who will adopt them for private and devotional use . I shall feel that this very humble effort is well rewarded if I ...
... Church will not receive his compositions , he will be most thankful to give them for the comfort and blessing of those who will adopt them for private and devotional use . I shall feel that this very humble effort is well rewarded if I ...
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Page 57 - 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 150 - My God, the spring of all my joys, The life of my delights, The glory of my brightest days, And comfort of my nights.
Page 52 - From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word : Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Page 43 - 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 240 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Page 51 - Jehovah's awful throne, Ye nations bow with sacred joy : Know that the Lord is God alone ; He can create, and He destroy. 2 His sovereign power, without our aid, Made...
Page 218 - MY dear Redeemer, and my Lord, I read my duty in thy word ; But in thy life the law appears Drawn out in living characters. 2 Such was thy truth — and such thy zeal, Such deference to thy Father's will, Such love — and meekness so divine, I would transcribe, and make them mine.
Page 174 - THE heavens declare thy glory, Lord ! In every star thy wisdom shines ; But, when our eyes behold thy word, We read thy name in fairer lines. 2 The rolling sun, the changing light, And nights, and days, thy power confess; But the blest volume thou hast writ Reveals thy justice and thy grace.
Page 92 - 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 71 - GOD, our Help in ages past, Our Hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal Home...