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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... sound , there is not only good reason for it , but in the interests of true religion there is a necessity for it . 1st . The form in which the Psalms and Hymns appear is a great obstacle to their present and future circulation and use ...
... sound , there is not only good reason for it , but in the interests of true religion there is a necessity for it . 1st . The form in which the Psalms and Hymns appear is a great obstacle to their present and future circulation and use ...
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... sound alike , for the first and last lines are perfect rhymes ; pursue , therefore , ought to rhyme with know . In such a verse as this it is impossible to discover , till you read the next verse , which lines are intended to rhyme ...
... sound alike , for the first and last lines are perfect rhymes ; pursue , therefore , ought to rhyme with know . In such a verse as this it is impossible to discover , till you read the next verse , which lines are intended to rhyme ...
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... sound , —there , however , lay their great charm . They were set to words full of buffoonery and roystering merri- ment ; or , alas ! sometimes covert , sometimes gross indecency . The grave faces and tones of the singers gave pungency ...
... sound , —there , however , lay their great charm . They were set to words full of buffoonery and roystering merri- ment ; or , alas ! sometimes covert , sometimes gross indecency . The grave faces and tones of the singers gave pungency ...
Page xxxiv
... were returning to good old sound church music , the Church of England began to linger after the very ways they had abandoned . * See Appendix , Note 9 . * There is a style which is easily recognised in Church xxxiv PREFACE .
... were returning to good old sound church music , the Church of England began to linger after the very ways they had abandoned . * See Appendix , Note 9 . * There is a style which is easily recognised in Church xxxiv PREFACE .
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... sound , Wide as the heaven on which He sits , To turn the seasons round . ' Tis He supports my mortal frame , My tongue shall speak His praise ; My sins would rouse His wrath to flame , And yet His wrath delays . On a poor worm Thy ...
... sound , Wide as the heaven on which He sits , To turn the seasons round . ' Tis He supports my mortal frame , My tongue shall speak His praise ; My sins would rouse His wrath to flame , And yet His wrath delays . On a poor worm Thy ...
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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
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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...