For the Lord's Supper

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1 O how good our gracious God is!
What rich feasts does he provide!
Bread and wine to feed our bodies;
But much more is signified:
All his sheep (amazing wonder!)
Feeds he with his flesh and blood;
Where’s the power can ever sunder
Souls united thus to God?

2 When we take the sacred symbols
Of his body, bread and wine;
While the heart relents and trembles,
We rejoice with joy divine;
Jesus makes the weakest able,
Feeds us with his flesh and blood;
Needy beggars at his table
Are the welcome guests of God.

3 Cease thy fears, then, weak believer;
Jesus Christ is still the same,
Yesterday, today, for ever,
Saviour is his unctuous name;
Lowliness of heart, and meekness
To the bleeding Lamb belong;
Trust to him, and by thy weakness
Thou shalt prove that Christ is strong.
1 O how good our gracious God is!
What rich feasts does he provide!
Bread and wine to feed our bodies;
But much more is signified:
All his sheep (amazing wonder!)
Feeds he with his flesh and blood;
Where’s the power can ever sunder
Souls united thus to God?

2 When we take the sacred symbols
Of his body, bread and wine;
While the heart relents and trembles,
We rejoice with joy divine;
Jesus makes the weakest able,
Feeds us with his flesh and blood;
Needy beggars at his table
Are the welcome guests of God.

3 Cease thy fears, then, weak believer;
Jesus Christ is still the same,
Yesterday, today, for ever,
Saviour is his unctuous name;
Lowliness of heart, and meekness
To the bleeding Lamb belong;
Trust to him, and by thy weakness
Thou shalt prove that Christ is strong.

Source: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #826

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Author: J. Hart

Hart, Joseph, was born in London in 1712. His early life is involved in obscurity. His education was fairly good; and from the testimony of his brother-in-law, and successor in the ministry in Jewin Street, the Rev. John Hughes, "his civil calling was" for some time "that of a teacher of the learned languages." His early life, according to his own Experience which he prefaced to his Hymns, was a curious mixture of loose conduct, serious conviction of sin, and endeavours after amendment of life, and not until Whitsuntide, 1757, did he realize a permanent change, which was brought about mainly through his attending divine service at the Moravian Chapel, in Fetter Lane, London, and hearing a sermon on Rev. iii. 10. During the next two years ma… Go to person page >

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