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12493 | The Cyber Hymnal#12494 | 12495 |
Text: | Though In The Outward Church Below |
Author: | John Newton, 1725-1807 |
Tune: | OLD 100TH |
Composer (attributed to): | Louis Bourgeois |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Though in the outward church below
The wheat and tares together grow;
Jesus ere long will weed the crop,
And pluck the tares, in anger, up.
2 Will it relieve their horrors there,
To recollect their stations here?
How much they heard, how much they knew,
How long amongst the wheat they grew!
3 Oh! this will aggravate their case!
They perished under means of grace;
To them the word of life and faith,
Became an instrument of death.
4 We seem alike when thus we meet,
Strangers might think we all are wheat;
But to the Lord’s all-searching eyes,
Each heart appears without disguise.
5 The tares are spared for various ends,
Some, for the sake of praying friends;
Others, the Lord, against their will,
Employs His counsels to fulfill.
6 But though they grow so tall and strong,
His plan will not require them long;
In harvest, when He saves His own,
The tares shall into hell be thrown.
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First Line: | Though in the outward church below |
Title: | Though In The Outward Church Below |
Author: | John Newton, 1725-1807 |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Olney Hymns (London, W. Oliver, 1779), Book 1 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | OLD 100TH |
Composer (attributed to): | Louis Bourgeois (1551) |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | G Major or modal |
Source: | Four Score and Seven Psalms of David (Geneva, Switzerland: 1551) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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