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Text: | How sweet the name of Jesus sounds |
Author: | John Newton, 1725-1807 |
Tune: | ST BOTOLPH |
Composer: | Gordon Archbold Slater, 1896-1979 |
1 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
in a believer's ear!
It soothes our sorrows, heals our wounds,
and drives away our fear.
2 It makes the wounded spirit whole
and calms the troubled breast,
is manna to the hungry soul
and to the weary rest.
3 Dear name! the rock on which I build,
my shield and hiding-place,
my never-failing treasury, filled
with boundless stores of grace:
4 Jesus, my shepherd, brother, friend,
my prophet, priest and king,
my Lord, my life, my way, my end,
accept the praise I bring.
5 Weak is the effort of my heart,
and cold my warmest thought;
but when I see you as you are
I'll praise you as I ought.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How sweet the name of Jesus sounds |
Author: | John Newton, 1725-1807 |
Meter: | 86.86 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
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Topic: | Circumcision; Faith; Funerals(9 more...) |
Notes: | May be sung to ST PETER 485 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST BOTOLPH |
Composer: | Gordon Archbold Slater, 1896-1979 |
Meter: | 86.86 |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Copyright: | Music by permission of Oxford University Press |