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Text:I Hear the Words of Love
Author:Horatius Bonar
Tune:ST. MICHAEL
Composer:Louis Bourgeois

218. I Hear the Words of Love

1 I hear the words of love,
I gaze upon the blood,
I see the mighty sacrifice,
and I have peace with God.

2 ’Tis everlasting peace,
sure as Jehovah’s name;
’tis stable as His steadfast throne,
for evermore the same.

3 The clouds may go and come,
and storms may sweep my sky;
this blood-sealed friendship changes not,
the cross is ever nigh.

4. I change--He changes not;
the Christ can never die;
His love, not mine, the resting-place;
His truth, not mine, the tie.

5 My love is oftimes low,
my joy still ebbs and flows,
but peace with Him remains the same;
no change Jehovah knows.

Text Information
First Line: I hear the words of love
Title: I Hear the Words of Love
Author: Horatius Bonar (1861)
Meter: SM
Language: English
Publication Date: 2017
Topic: Salvation
Tune Information
Name: ST. MICHAEL
Composer: Louis Bourgeois (1543)
Meter: SM
Key: G Major



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