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Text:Come, Let Our Souls Adore the Lord
Author:Anne Steele
Tune:BEDFORD
Composer:William Wheale
Media:MIDI file

906. Come, Let Our Souls Adore the Lord

1. Come, let our souls adore the Lord
Whose judgments yet delay;
Who yet suspends the lifted sword,
And gives us time to pray.

2. Great is our guilt, our fears are great,
But let us not despair;
Still open is the mercy seat
To penitence and prayer.

3. Kind Intercessor, to Thy love
This blessèd hope we owe;
O let Thy mercies plead above,
While we implore below!

4. Though justice near Thy awful throne
Attends Thy dread command,
Lord, hear Thy servants, hear Thy Son,
And save a guilty land.

Text Information
First Line: Come, let our souls adore the Lord
Title: Come, Let Our Souls Adore the Lord
Author: Anne Steele (1757)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: BEDFORD
Composer: William Wheale (1729)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 53165 43251 76653
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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