Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#93b

93b. Christ's Commission

1. Come, happy souls, approach your God
With new, melodious songs;
Come, tender to almighty grace
The tribute of your tongues.

2. So strange, so boundless was the love
The pitied the accursed,
The Father sent his equal Son
To give them second birth.

3. Your hands, dear Jesus, were not armed
With a revenging rod,
No hard commission to perform
The vengeance of a God.

4. But all was mercy, all was mild,
And wrath forsook the throne,
When Christ on the kind errand came
And brought salvation down.

5. Here, sinners, you may heal your wounds
And wipe your sorrows dry;
Trust in the mighty Savior’s name,
And you shall never die.

Text Information

• First Line: Come, happy souls, approach your God
• Title: Christ's Commission
• Author: Isaac Watts (1707)
• Meter: 8.6.8.6
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  John 3:1-17
• Topic: Lent
• Notes: Text by dissenting minister Isaac Watts, from Hymns & Spiritual Songs (1707, rev. 1709), alt.

Tune Information

• Name: HARINGTON
• Composer: Henry Harington (1775)
• Meter: 8.6.8.6
• Incipit: 51765 43456 65
• Key: D Major
• Notes: Tune HARINGTON by English physician Henry Harington, from A Companion to the Magdalen-Chapel (ca. 1775).