LYRICS
| Meter: | 6 6 8 6 (S.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Horatius Bonar
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| | Dates: | 1861
| | Bible Refs: | Ps 145:2
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 434
| Believers Hymn Book
| 1981
| 86
| Hymns of Faith
| 1964
| 336
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 112
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MUSIC
Baptist Hymn Book
| 434
| Bb
| Believers Hymn Book
| 440
| Bb
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Alternate Tunes
| NARENZA | 6 6 8 6 (S.M.) | Catholicum Hymnogogium Leisentritt J. & Frances Ridley Havergal | | SILCHESTER | 6 6 8 6 (S.M.) | Henri Abraham César Malan | | PRAISE SONG | 6 6 8 6 D (D.S.M.) | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy |
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| 1. I bless the Christ of God,
I rest on love divine,
And with unfaltering lip and heart,
I call the Savior mine.
2. His cross dispels each doubt;
I bury in His tomb
Each thought of unbelief and fear,
Each lingering shade of gloom.
3. I praise the God of peace,
I trust His truth and might;
He calls me His, I call Him mine,
My God, my Joy, my Light.
4. In Him is only good,
in me is only ill;
My ill but draws His goodness forth,
And me He loveth still.
5. ’Tis He Who saveth me,
and freely pardon gives;
I love because He loveth me;
I live because He lives;
6. My life with Him is hid,
my death has passed away,
My clouds have melted into light,
My midnight into day.
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