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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... breath is forfeited by sin To God's avenging law ; We own Thy grace , Immortal King , In every breath we draw . God is our sun , whose daily light Our joy and safety brings ; Our feeble flesh lies safe at night Beneath His shady wings ...
... breath is forfeited by sin To God's avenging law ; We own Thy grace , Immortal King , In every breath we draw . God is our sun , whose daily light Our joy and safety brings ; Our feeble flesh lies safe at night Beneath His shady wings ...
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... breath remains ; There my best friends , my kindred dwell , There God my Saviour reigns . Ps . 122 . DIVINE SERVICE . PRAISE waits in Sion , Lord , for Thee ; There shall our vows be paid : Thou hast an ear when sinners pray ; All flesh ...
... breath remains ; There my best friends , my kindred dwell , There God my Saviour reigns . Ps . 122 . DIVINE SERVICE . PRAISE waits in Sion , Lord , for Thee ; There shall our vows be paid : Thou hast an ear when sinners pray ; All flesh ...
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... breath to pray or praise ; This work shall make my heart rejoice , And fill the remnant of my days . Ps . 63 . Rev. v . 12. - Worthy is the Lamb that was slain . COME YOME , let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne ...
... breath to pray or praise ; This work shall make my heart rejoice , And fill the remnant of my days . Ps . 63 . Rev. v . 12. - Worthy is the Lamb that was slain . COME YOME , let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne ...
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... breath To save the holy words from death . Great God , mine eyes with pleasure look On the dear volume of Thy Book ; There my Redeemer's face I see , And read His name who died for me . Let the false raptures of the mind Be lost , and ...
... breath To save the holy words from death . Great God , mine eyes with pleasure look On the dear volume of Thy Book ; There my Redeemer's face I see , And read His name who died for me . Let the false raptures of the mind Be lost , and ...
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... breath Rise thick , and scatter midnight death , Israel is safe ; the poisoned air Grows pure , if Israel's God be there . But if the fire , or plague , or sword Receive commission from the Lord To strike His saints among the rest ...
... breath Rise thick , and scatter midnight death , Israel is safe ; the poisoned air Grows pure , if Israel's God be there . But if the fire , or plague , or sword Receive commission from the Lord To strike His saints among the rest ...
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abode adore Almighty angels Behold beneath Bishop of Liverpool bless'd blessed blood breath bright chapel Charles Wesley cheerful Christ Church Countess of Huntingdon darkness dear death delight Divine Service dwell dying earth endless eternal everlasting eyes faith Father fear feet flesh glorious Gospel hath heart heaven heavenly hell holy honours hope Hosanna humble souls hymn writers Hymns and Psalms immortal Israel Jesus John Charles Ryle John Wesley joys King Lamb lives Lord Lord's Supper mercy mighty mortal ne'er o'er pardoning peace pleasure promised Psalms reigns rejoice rhymes righteousness rise sacred saints salvation Satan Saviour sing sinners sins skies song sorrows soul sovereign Spirit stand sung Supralapsarians sweet taste Thee Thine thoughts Thy face Thy grace Thy hand Thy love Thy name Thy power Thy praise Thy throne Thy Word tongue triumph truth tunes verse voice Watts Wesley wonders wondrous worship ye saints
Popular passages
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...