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Text: | Highly Favored Congregation |
Author: | Samuel T. Benade |
Tune: | BATTY |
Composer: | John Thommen |
1 Highly favored congregation,
loved by Jesus and esteemed,
ne’er forget thy destination,
why from this vain world redeemed.
2 Grounded on your Savior’s merit,
blessed in his communion sweet,
destined heaven to inherit,
and the church above to meet.
3 Witness here to all around you
of your Savior’s dying love;
tell them how he sought and found you,
gave you grace from heav'n above.
4 Evidence by word and action
that your faith is not in vain,
that your highest satisfaction
centers in the Lamb once slain.
5 By love’s closest bonds united,
as the Lord’s own family,
be to serve his name excited,
be to him a fruitful tree.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Highly favored congregation |
Title: | Highly Favored Congregation |
Author: | Samuel T. Benade (1789, alt.) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7. Trochaic |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1995 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Nature of the Church; Church--Community in Christ; Church--Foundation and nature(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BATTY |
Composer: | John Thommen (1745) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7. Trochaic |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Herrnhut (c. 1735); C. Gregor Choralbuch (1784) |
Notes: | 16 A in 1891 Offices of Worship and Hymns |