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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 8: HYMN VIII.
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 VIII.
I. Come let's adore the King of Love, The King of sufferings too, For love it was that brought him down, And set him here below. Love drew him from his Paradise, Where Flowers that fade not grow, ⟨p. 162⟩And planted him in our poor dust, Among us, Weeds below.
I. COme let's adore the King of Love, The King of suff'rings too, For love it was that brought him down, And set him here below. Love drew him from his Paradice, Where Flowers that fade not grow, ⟨p. 162⟩And planted him in our poor dust, Among us, Weeds below.
II. O narrow thoughts, and narrow speech! Here your defects confess. The life of God, the death of Christ, How faintly you express. O thou! who from a Virgin root Madest this fair Flower to spring, Help us to raise both heart and voice, And with more spirit sing,
II. O narrow thoughts, and narrow speech! Here your defects confess. The life of God, the death of Christ, How faintly you express. O thou! who from a Virgin root Made'st this fair Flower to spring, Help us to raise both heart and voice, And with more spirit sing,