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8193 | The Cyber Hymnal#8194 | 8195 |
Text: | Behold With Pleasing Ecstasy |
Author: | Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 |
Tune: | OLD 100TH |
Composer (attributed to): | Louis Bourgeois |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Behold with pleasing ecstasy
The Gospel standard lifted high,
That all the nations from afar
May in the great salvation share.
2 Why then, almighty Savior, why
Do wretched souls in millions die?
While wide th’infernal tyrant reigns
O’er spacious realms in ponderous chains?
3 And shall he still go on to boast
Thy cross its energy hath lost?
And shall Thy servants still complain
Their labors, and their tears are vain?
4 Awake, all conquering arm, awake,
And hell’s extensive empire shake;
Assert the honors of Thy throne,
And call this ruined world Thine own.
5 Thine all successful power display;
Produce a nation in a day;
For at Thy word this barren earth
Shall travail with a general birth.
6 Swift let Thy quickening Spirit breathe
On these abodes of sin and death;
That breath shall bow ten thousand minds,
Like waving corn before the winds.
7 Scarce can our glowing hearts endure
A world, where Thou art known more;
Transform it, Lord, by conquering love,
Or bear us to the realms above.
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First Line: | Behold with pleasing ecstasy |
Title: | Behold With Pleasing Ecstasy |
Author: | Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton, 1755) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | OLD 100TH |
Composer (attributed to): | Louis Bourgeois (1551) |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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