Farewell to all but Christ

Farewell, vain world, I bid adieu, Your glories I despise

Author: Thomas Shepherd
Published in 43 hymnals

Representative Text

1 Farewell vain world, I bid adieu,
Your glories I despise;
Your friendship I no more pursue,
Your flatt'ries are but lies.

3 You promise happiness in vain,
Nor can you satisfy;
Your highest pleasures turn to pain,
And all your treasures die.

3 Had I the Indies, East and West,
And riches of the sea;
Without my God I could not rest,
For he is all to me.

4 Then let my soul rise far above;
By faith I'll take my wing,
To the eternal realms of love,
Where saints and angels sing

5 There's love and joy that will not waste;
There's treasures that endure;
There's pleasure that will always last,
When time shall be no more.



Source: Divine Hymns or Spiritual Songs, for the use of religious assemblies and private Christians: being a collection #XCV

Author: Thomas Shepherd

Shepherd, Thomas, son of William Shepherd, sometime Vicar of Tilbrook, Bedfordshire, and subsequently a Nonconformist Minister at Oundle, and at Kettering, was born in 1665. Taking Holy Orders he held for some time preferment in Huntingdonshire, and in Buckinghamshire. Seceding from the Church of England, he became, in 1694, pastor of the Castle Hill Meeting House (Independent), Nottingham, of which Dr. Doddridge was subsequently pastor. In 1700 he removed to Bocking, near Braintree, Essex, where he began his work in a barn. A chapel was erected for his congregation in 1707. He died Jan. 29, 1739. His publications consisted chiefly of Sermons, His Penitential Cries were a continuance of those by John Mason, who wrote the first six and the v… Go to person page >

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First Line: Farewell, vain world, I bid adieu, Your glories I despise
Title: Farewell to all but Christ
Author: Thomas Shepherd
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Collection of original and select hymns and spiritual songs #LVIII

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A Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs #H.CCCLXVI

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A Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs #H.CCCLXVI

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Baptist Hymn Book #a488

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Divine Hymns, or Spiritual Songs #91

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Divine Hymns, or Spiritual Songs #47

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Hymns and Spiritual Songs (New ed.) #202

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Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected, for the Use of Christians. (5th ed.) #B133

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Hymns of the "Jubilee Harp" #a622

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Hymns of the Church Militant #50a

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Social Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #309

The American Seaman's Hymn Book #d59

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The Baptist Hymn Book #488

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The Jubilee Harp #622

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The Wesleyan Sacred Harp #222

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The Wesleyan Sacred Harp #222

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A Choice Selection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the use of Christians #390

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A New Selection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #275

Christian Psalms and Hymns to Aid in Public and Private Devotion #d228

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Divine Hymns, or Spiritual Songs #XCII

Divine Hymns, or Spiritual Songs #d51

General Collection of Hymns, Original and Selected, for Use of Christians #d93

Hymns and Psalms, Original and Modern, Selected and Revised #d123

Hymns and Spiritual Songs #d107

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Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected, for the Use of Christians. (8th ed.) #b133

Hymns and Spiritual Songs. 1st Canadian ed. #d88

Hymns on Different Spiritual Subjects. Part I #d7

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Hymns, Original and Selected, for the Use of Christians. (5th ed. corr.) #182

Hymns, Original and Selected, for the use of Christians #d73

Hymns, Original and Selected, for the Use of Christians. 8th ed. #d78

Musical Gems. 7th ed. #d28

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Sacred Melodies #139

The Christian Hymn Book #d157

The Christian Hymn Book. 7th ed. #d160

The Christian Lyre #d92

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The New England Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs #43

The Spiritual Songster. lst ed. #d39

Vestry Harp #d13

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