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7709 | The Cyber Hymnal#7710 | 7711 |
Text: | What Various Hindrances We Meet |
Author: | William Cowper |
Tune: | BRESLAU |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. What various hindrances we meet
In coming to a mercy seat;
Yet who that knows the worth of prayer,
But wishes to be often there.
2. Prayer makes the darkened cloud withdraw,
Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw;
Gives exercise to faith and love,
Brings every blessing from above.
3. Restraining prayer, we cease to fight;
Prayer makes the Christian’s armor bright;
And Satan trembles, when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.
4. While Moses stood with arms spread wide,
Success was found on Israel’s side;
But when through weariness they failed,
That moment Amalek prevailed.
5. Have you no words? Ah, think again,
Words flow apace when you complain;
And fill your fellow creature’s ear
With the sad tale of all your care.
6. Were half the breath thus vainly spent,
To Heav’n in supplication sent;
Your cheerful song would oft’ner be,
Hear what the Lord has done for me.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | What various hindrances we meet |
Title: | What Various Hindrances We Meet |
Author: | William Cowper (1779) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Olney Hymns (London: W. Oliver, 1779), number 60 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tune: CROWBOROUGH, Walter G. Whinfield; first issued in a lithographed set of Eight Hymn Tunes (Birmingham, England: Priestly), then in Alternative Hymn Tunes, 1902 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BRESLAU |
Meter: | LM |
Incipit: | 11161 27667 12576 |
Key: | A Major |
Source: | As Hymnodus Sacer (Leipzig, Germany: 1625) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Media | |
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Adobe Acrobat image: | Adobe Acrobat image (Cyber Hymnal) |
MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
XML score: | XML score |