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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... sweet- ness , for sublimity , for devotional feeling . He has beaten Watts on his own ground , -the power of turning a psalm into a hymn . Compare the two versions of the 24th Psalm ; not only is Wesley's the better of the two , but it ...
... sweet- ness , for sublimity , for devotional feeling . He has beaten Watts on his own ground , -the power of turning a psalm into a hymn . Compare the two versions of the 24th Psalm ; not only is Wesley's the better of the two , but it ...
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... sweet voices and taste and skill could lead the singing , no doubt , much pleasure was felt in the exercise , and many a pastor , and many a clergyman longed to put an end to the weary psalms and the nasal drawl PREFACE . xix.
... sweet voices and taste and skill could lead the singing , no doubt , much pleasure was felt in the exercise , and many a pastor , and many a clergyman longed to put an end to the weary psalms and the nasal drawl PREFACE . xix.
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... sweet music in the chapel , felt injured by the want of sympathy in the angry deacon , who had given out the psalms for forty years , or in his brother minister , who thought even Patrick's Psalms a dangerous tampering with the original ...
... sweet music in the chapel , felt injured by the want of sympathy in the angry deacon , who had given out the psalms for forty years , or in his brother minister , who thought even Patrick's Psalms a dangerous tampering with the original ...
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... Sweet Jesus . The best apology for the larger number of these faults is , that they are closely Scriptural . Such sensuous imagery is largely employed to describe the blessings of salvation and the glories of heaven by the Spirit of God ...
... Sweet Jesus . The best apology for the larger number of these faults is , that they are closely Scriptural . Such sensuous imagery is largely employed to describe the blessings of salvation and the glories of heaven by the Spirit of God ...
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... sweet harmonies , and by many persons they have been cast into oblivion , not without regret . Were it not for the wearisome repetitions of lines and half lines , they would , as melodies , be far preferable to many we use in the ...
... sweet harmonies , and by many persons they have been cast into oblivion , not without regret . Were it not for the wearisome repetitions of lines and half lines , they would , as melodies , be far preferable to many we use in the ...
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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...