| FIRST LINE
| SONGWRITERS | DATES
| METER
| LYRICS?
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1:1-3 | May God be praised
| Martin Luther
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1:3 | Father loving Father Hear Thy children's
| Jean Milne Gower
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| 6 5 6 5
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1:3 | I belong to the King I'm a child of His
| Ida Lilliard Reed
| 1896
| 12 9 12 9 and refrain
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1:3 | How can we sinners know Our sins on
| Charles Wesley
| 1749
| 6 6 8 6 (S.M.)
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1:4 | God is Love
| Clarence Rivers
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1:5 | Holy Spirit Lord of light From Thy clear
| Innocent III tr/ad by Edward Caswall
| 1848
| 7 7 7
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1:5 | Father of Light we sing in Thy praise
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrinia tr/ad by Myrtle Koon Cherryman
| 16 c
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1:5 | O God of light O God of love Shine on my
| Arthur Sydney Booth-Clibborn
| 1895
| 8 8 8 8 8 8
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1:5 | Father of lights in whom there is no
| Helen Thoburn & Margaret Wilson
| 1913
| 11 10 11 10
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1:5 | Walking in sunlight all of my journey
| Henry Jeffreys Zelley
| 1899
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1:5 | Light of Light enlighten me Now anew the
| Benjamin Schmolck tr/ad by Katherine Winkworth
| 1714
| 7 8 7 8 7 7
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1:5 | O Unity of threefold light Send out Thy
| Metrophanes of Smyrna tr/ad by John Mason Neale
| c.90
| 8 6 8 6 D (D.C.M.)
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1:5 | O Light that knew no dawn
| Gregory of Nazianzus tr/ad by John Brownlie
| 1900
| 6 6 6 6 8 8
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1:5 | Walk in the light So shalt thou know
| Bernard Barton
| 1826
| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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1:5-7 | May God be praised
| Martin Luther
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1:5-7 | Light and salvation is the Lord for me
| Christopher M. Idle
| ©
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1:5-7 | Thou Whose almighty word Chaos and
| John Marriott
| 1813
| 6 6 4 6 6 6 4
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1:5-9 | Ring those bells This year every year
| Christopher M. Idle
| ©
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1:7 | I sought in tears my Saviour's cross He
| Frances (Fanny) Jane Crosby
| 1885
| 8 6 8 6 r 8 6 8 6
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1:7 | We're marching home to Canaan's land
| J. B. Moon & Franklin Lycurgus Eiland
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| 8 10 8 10 and refrain
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1:7 | The blood that Jesus shed for me When
| Frances (Fanny) Jane Crosby
| 1885
| 8 8 8 6 r 6 8 8 6
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1:7 | We're saved by the blood That was drawn
| Frances (Fanny) Jane Crosby
| 1875
| 5 6 5 6 and refrain
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1:7 | My sins which were many are all washed
| Ida A. Guirey
| 1920
| 11 8 11 8 and refrain
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1:7 | Come ye sinners lost and hopeless
| Anna W. Waterman
| 1920
| 8 7 8 7 and refrain
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1:7 | O for a thousand tongues to sing
| Charles Wesley
| 1739
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1:7 | Let all here on earth know well what you
| Michael Gilligan
| 1970
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1:7 | Cleansed in our Saviour's precious blood
| W. Spencer Walton
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| 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
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1:7 | Just as I am without one plea
| Charlotte Elliott tr/ad by Jubilate Hymns
| ©1835
| 8 8 8 6
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1:7 | O that my load of sin were gone
| Charles Wesley
| 1742
| 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
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1:7 | Are we walking daily walking
| Eliza Edmunds Hewitt
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| 15 15 15 15 and refrain
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1:7 | Here from all nations all tongues
| Christopher M. Idle
| ©
| 11 10 11 10
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1:7 | The blood that Jesus once shed for me
| Civilla Durfee Martin
| 1912
| 9 9 9 7 and refrain
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1:7 | Come shout and sing make Heaven ring
| James Conner Bateman
| 1881
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1:7 | Precious Saviour I will praise Thee
| L. M. Rouse
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| 8 7 8 7 and refrain
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1:7 | Fountain of purity opened for sin
| Newman Hall
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| 10 10 10 10 r 8 6 8
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1:7 | It is the blood that washes white
| William James Pearson
| 1882
| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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1:7 | In the blood from the cross I have been
| Johnson Jr. Oatman
| 1896
| 6 6 6 6 and refrain
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1:7 | I know I love Thee better Lord
| Frances Ridley Havergal
| 1878
| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) and refra
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1:7 | We are traveling on with our staff in
| Frances (Fanny) Jane Crosby
| 1897
| 10 7 10 7 and refrain
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1:7 | Lord keep my soul from day to day
| Eliza Edmunds Hewitt
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| 8 8 8 6 and refrain
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1:7 | There is a stream that flows
| F. L. Snyder
| 1899
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1:7 | He Who once in righteous vengeance
| Roman Breviary tr/ad by Edward Caswall
| 1827
| 8 7 8 7 7 7
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1:7 | I worship You almighty King
| Nathan Fellingham & Luke Fellingham & Louise Hunt
| ©1997
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1:7 | I bow down in humble adoration
| Nathan Fellingham
| ©1992
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1:7 | Holiness is Your life on me
| Brian Doerksen
| ©1990
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1:7 | To a world in darkness
| Noel Richards & Doug Horley
| ©1996
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1:7 | Who can sound the depths of sorrow
| Graham Kendrick
| ©1988
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1:7 | Purify my heart Let me be
| Brian Doerksen
| ©1990
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1:7 | Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour
| George Hugh Bourne
| 1874
| 8 7 8 7 4 7
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1:7 | Light has dawned
| Graham Kendrick
| ©1988
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1:7 | Lamb of God Holy One
| Chris A. Bowater
| ©1988
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1:7 | I love You my Lord For giving
| Dave Fellingham
| ©1984
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1:7 | Would you be free from the burden
| Lewis Edgar Jones
| 1899
| 10 9 10 8 and refrain
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1:7 | Only by grace can we enter
| Gerrit Gustafson
| ©1989
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1:7 | Rock of Ages cleft for me Let me hide
| Augustus Montague Toplady
| 1776
| 7 7 7 7 7 7
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1:7 | Just as I am without one plea But that
| Charlotte Elliott & William Batchelder Bradbury
| 1835
| 8 8 8 6
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1:7 | O the blood of Jesus
| Jan Harrington
| ©1975
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1:7 | O for a thousand tongues to sing
| Charles Wesley
| 1739
| 8 6 8 6 extended
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1:9 | Father Whose love we have wronged
| Vincent Stuckey Stratton Coles
| 1904
| 11 10 11 6
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1:9 | O God to know that Thou art just
| Arthur James Mason
| 1889
| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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1:9 | He whose confession God of old
| Latin tr/ad by Laurence Housman
| 8 ce
| 11 11 11 5
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1:9 | No not despairingly Come I to Thee
| Horatius Bonar
| 1866
| 6 4 6 4 6 6 6 4
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1:9 | Search me O God and know my heart today
| James Edwin Orr
| ©1936
| 10 10 10 10
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2:1 | A dread hath come on me I know not where
| Simon Dach tr/ad by Katherine Winkworth
| 1640
| 6 6 7 6 6 7
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2:1 | Come O my soul my every power awaking
| Frances (Fanny) Jane Crosby
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| 11 10 11 10 and refrain
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2:1 | Come let us lift our joyful eyes
| Isaac Watts
| 1707
| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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2:1 | When at thy footstool Lord I bend
| Henry Francis Lyte
| 1833
| 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
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2:1 | Jesus my Advocate above My Friend before
| Charles Wesley
| 1739
| 8 8 8 8 D (D.L.M.)
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2:1 | O Thou the contrite sinner's Friend
| Charlotte Elliott
| 1835
| 8 8 8 6
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2:1-11 | To Cana's wedding feast there comes
| David Mowbray
| ©
| 6 6 6 6 6 6
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2:4 | Who keepeth not God's Word yet saith
| Christian Fürchtegott Gellert tr/ad by Katherine Winkworth
| 1757
| 8 6 8 6 8 8
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2:6 | Behold where in the Friend of man Appear
| William Endfield
| 1802
| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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2:8 | The morning light is breaking
| Samuel Francis Smith
| 1832
| 7 6 7 6 D
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2:8 | O Christ our true and only light
| Johann Heermann tr/ad by Katherine Winkworth
| 1630
| 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
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2:8 | Colours of day dawn into the mind
| Sue McClellan & John Pac & Keith Ryecroft
| ©1974
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2:10 | Light and salvation is the Lord for me
| Christopher M. Idle
| ©
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2:15 | What is the world to me With all its
| Georg Michael Pfefferkorn
| 1667
| 6 7 6 7 6 6 6 6
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2:15 | I've fallen in love
| Pete Cant
| ©1997
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2:15-17 | How good is life and length of days
| Christopher M. Idle
| ©
| 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
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2:25 | The fires of the sun shall be quenched
| Jessie Brown Pounds
| c.19
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2:25 | God hath not promised skies always blue
| Annie Johnson Flint
| 1919
| 9 9 9 9 with refrain
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2:25 | Tis the promise of God full salvation
| Philip Paul Bliss
| 1874
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2:28 | When rising from the bed of death
| Joseph Addison
| 1712
| 8 6 8 6 D (D.C.M.)
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2:28 | Far above all other loves
| Dave Fellingham
| ©1997
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2:28-39 | God's own child I gladly say it
| Erdmann Neumeister
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3:1 | Wonderful story of love Tell it to me
| John Merritte Driver
| 1892
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3:1 | Blessed are the sons of God They are
| Joseph Humphreys
| 1743
| 7 7 7 7 7 7
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3:1 | Behold what wondrous love and grace
| William Sanders
| 1821
| 8 8 8 8 8 8
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3:1 | Tell it to others as onward you go
| James Rowe
| 1913
| 10 7 10 7 and refrain
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3:1 | Our Father's love so vast and boundless
| Robert (Michael) George Cullinan
| ©1996
| 9 8 9 8
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3:1 | O Father we would thank Thee
| Ada Rundall Greenaway
| 1904
| 7 6 7 6 D
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3:1 | A friend I have called Jesus Whose love
| Edna R. Worrell
| 1903
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3:1 | Behold what love what boundless love
| Robert Boswell
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| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) and refra
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3:1 | Children of the heavenly Father
| Karolina Wilhelmina Sandell-Berg & Ernst William Olson
| ©1858
| 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
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3:1 | Come let us sing of a wonderful love
| Robert Walmsley
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| 10 4 10 7 4 10 extended
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3:1-3 | God's own child I gladly say it
| Erdmann Neumeister
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3:1-3 | Behold what wondrous grace The Father
| Isaac Watts
| 1707
| 6 6 8 6 (S.M.)
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3:1-4 | Behold the amazing gift of love
| Isaac Watts & William Cameron & (1781) Scottish Paraphrases
| 1709
| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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3:2 | As if Lord you are there I live my life
| David Mowbray
| ©
| 6 6 6 6
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3:2 | By and by we shall know Jesus
| Eben Eugene Rexford
| 1871
| 8 7 8 7 D and refrain
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3:2 | And is it so I shall be like Thy Son
| John Nelson Darby
| 1872
| 10 10 10 10
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3:2 | I know not the hour when my Lord
| Philip Paul Bliss
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3:2 | As I journey through the land singing as
| Rufus Henry Cornelius
| 1916
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3:2 | The day is fast approaching
| J. Harker
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3:2 | Sons of God beloved in Jesus
| Daniel Webster Whittle
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| 8 7 8 7 and refrain
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3:2 | When all my labours and trials
| Charles Hutchinson Gabriel
| 1900
| 10 10 10 10 and refrain
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3:3 | Pure essence Spotless Fount of Light
| Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen tr/ad by Katherine Winkworth
| 1713
| 8 8 8 8 D (D.L.M.)
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3:3 | Be true and list the voice within
| Kate L. Colby & Unknown
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| 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
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3:4 | When lawless people thrive and wrong
| Christopher M. Idle
| ©
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3:5 | Behold the servant of the Lord
| Charles Wesley
| 1749
| 8 8 8 8 8 8
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3:5 | Be still for the presence of the Lord
| David J. Evans
| ©1986
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3:8 | For this purpose Christ was revealed
| Graham Kendrick
| ©1985
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3:8 | A safe stronghold our God is still
| Martin Luther & Rupert E. Davies tr/ad by Thomas Carlyle
| 1529
| 8 7 8 7 6 6 6 6 7
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3:10-15 | Must the sword devour for ever ancient
| Christopher M. Idle
| ©
| 8 7 8 7
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3:14 | Till I learned to love Thy name
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3:16 | Jesus most generous Lord whose nature
| Christopher M. Idle
| ©
| 6 6 6 6 4 4 4 4
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3:16 | O perfect life of love All all is finish
| Henry Williams Baker
| 1875
| 6 6 8 6 (S.M.)
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3:17 | Lord teach us to rejoice in you in chain
| Christopher M. Idle
| ©
| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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3:18 | He prayeth best who lovest best All
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| 1798
| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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3:19 | In His presence in His Holy presence
| Geron Davis
| ©1994
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3:23 | Heart and heart together bound Seek in
| Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf tr/ad by Katherine Winkworth
| c.17
| 7 7 7 7 D
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3:24 | There's a home in my heart for Jesus
| Lanta Wilson Smith
| 1900
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3:24 | Live out Thy life within me O Jesus King
| Frances Ridley Havergal
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| 7 6 7 6 D
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3:24 | To me the Holy Ghost is given
| Thoro Harris
| 1920
| 8 8 8 7 and refrain
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3:24 | Abide in me O Lord and I in Thee
| Harriet Beecher Stowe
| 1855
| 10 10 10 10
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4:2 | Come Holy Spirit God and Lord Be all Thy
| Martin Luther tr/ad by Katherine Winkworth
| 1524
| 8 8 8 8 D (D.L.M.) 8
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4:2 | Come Holy Spirit God and Lord Let all
| Unknown tr/ad by Martin Luther & Katherine Winkworth
| 1524
| 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
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4:2 | Christians sing out with exultation
| Benedict Pictet tr/ad by Henry Lascelles Jenner
| 1705
| 9 8 9 8 D
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4:4 | We will triumph in the Lord
| Dan Gardner
| ©1985
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4:4 | Therefore I will sing and I will rejoice
| Graham Kendrick
| ©1986
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4:7 | Beloved let us love for love is of God
| Unknown
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4:7 | Beloved let us love love is of God
| Horatius Bonar
| 1880
| 10 10
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4:7 | Love divine all loves excelling Joy of
| Charles Wesley
| 1747
| 8 7 8 7 D
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4:7 | Let there be love shared among us
| Dave Bilbrough
| ©1979
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4:7-8 | Beloved let us love one another for love
| Dale Garrett
| ©1973
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4:7-10 | Immense immeasurable space drives
| David Mowbray
| ©
| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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4:7-10 | I never looked for Jesus praise God
| Christopher M. Idle
| ©
| 7 6 9 7
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4:8 | Amid the splendours of Thy state My God
| John Rippon
| 1886
| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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4:8 | Holy Jesus God of Love Look with pity
| Thomas Parnell
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| 7 7 7 7
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4:8 | O gentle sweet and tender love
| Edith Gilling Cherry
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| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) and refra
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4:8 | O love that casts out fear O love that
| Horatius Bonar
| 1861
| 6 6 6 6
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4:8 | God of almighty love By whose sufficient
| Charles Wesley
| 1889
| 6 6 8 6 D (D.S.M.)
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4:8 | Love came down at Christmas
| Christina Georgina Rossetti
| 1885
| 6 7 6 7
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4:8 | God is Love His Word proclaims it
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