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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 9: HYMN IX.
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.
I. Tune now your selves my heart strings high, Let us aloft our voices raise, That our loud song may reach the Sky, And there present to thee our praise. ⟨p. 163⟩To thee, blest Jesus, who camest down From those bright Spheres of Joy above, To purchase us a dear bought Crown, And woe our Souls t'espouse thy Love.
I. TUne now your selves my heart strings high, Let us aloft our voices raise, That our loud song may reach the Sky, And there present to thee our praise. ⟨p. 163⟩To thee, blest Jesus, who came'st down From those bright Spheres of Joy above, To purchase us a dear bought Crown, And woe our Souls t'espouse thy Love.
Long had the World in darkness sat, Till thou with thy all-glorious light Began to dawn from Heavens fair Gate, And with thy beam dispelled their night.
Long had the World in darkness sat, Till thou with thy all-glorious light Began to dawn from Heav'ns fair Gate, And with thy beam dispell'd their night.
We too, alas! still here had stood As common slaves in this same shade, But Jesus came, and with his Blood Our general Ransom freely paid.