A26957:261
Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B
Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B. ; to which is added suitable meditations before, in, and after receiving ; with divine hymns in common tunes, fitted for public congregations or private families.Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B. ; to which is added suitable meditations before, in, and after receiving ; with divine hymns in common tunes, fitted for publick congregations or private families.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1696
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Hymns suited to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. To be sung in t… › Hymn 7: HYMN VII.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
HYMN VII.
I. WE to our heavenly Father give The tribute praise we owe, Who by his purifying Grace Prepares us here below. Lo here's the most amazing proof Of great and matchless Love! Not that our Early love to God Did his prevent and move.
II. His motives all to pity us From his own bowels flow; Thence came the richest gift of Heaven To Guilty Men below. That to his glorious grace all praise Might be entirely paid: Who, that he might forgive our sins, Christ's Blood our Ransom made;
II. His motives all to pity us From his own bowels flow; Thence came the richest gift of Heav'n To Guilty Men below. That to his glorious grace all praise Might be intirely paid: Who, that he might forgive our sins, Christ's Blood our Ransom made;
III. Let then this glorious gift of God Yet more our Souls refine, That his pure Image may in us With greater glory shine. Draw us, dear Lord, and towards thee We with swift wings will move, Thou Object of our highest hopes, And of our dearest Love.