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Great God, attend, while Zion sings
Author: Dr. Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 358 hymnals Topics: Adoration Of God; Church Love for; Zion, Songs of; The Church and the Kingdom of God The Lord's Day; Grace Abounding; God Adoration of; God King of ; Worship Joy in ; Trust, in God ; Joy Of Worship; Shield God our ; Praise Zion's; King God our; Sun God, our Lyrics: 1 Great God, attend, while Zion sings
The joy that from Thy presence springs;
To spend one day with Thee on earth
Exceeds a thousand days of mirth.
2 Might I enjoy the meanest place
Within Thine house, O God of grace,
Not tents of ease, nor thrones of power,
Should tempt my feet to leave Thy door.
3 God is our sun, He makes our day;
God is our shield, He guards our way
From all the assaults of hell and sin,
From foes without and foes within.
4 All needful grace will God bestow,
And crown that grace with glory too;
He gives us all things, and withholds
No real good from upright souls.
5 O God our King, whose sovereign sway
The glorious hosts of heaven obey,
And devils at Thy presence flee,
Blest is the man that trusts in Thee.
Used With Tune: WARRINGTON
Great God, attend, while Zion sings
Great God, this sacred day of thine
Appears in 115 hymnals Topics: Adoration For the Lord's Day Lyrics: 1 Great God, this sacred day of thine
Demands the souls' collected powers!
May we employ in work divine,
These solemn, these devoted hours!
O may our souls adoring own
The grace which calls us to thy throne!
2 The word of life dispens'd to day,
Invites us to a heavenly feast;
May every ear the call obey,
Be every heart a humble guest!
Let all draw near, and tasting prove
The sweetness of thy boundless love.
3 Thy truth's most pow'rful aid impart;
O may thy word, with life divine,
Engage the ear, and warm the heart!
Then shall the day indeed be thine;
Then shall our souls adoring own
The grace which calls us to thy throne.
Great God, this sacred day of thine
Gracious Spirit, Love divine
Appears in 483 hymnals Topics: The Holy Ghost - the Spirit of the Lord Contemplation and Adoration
Gracious Spirit, Love divine
GROSSER GOTT
Meter: 7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 223 hymnals Topics: Praise the Lord; Adoration and Praise God Our Father Tune Sources: Katholisches Gesangbuch, 1774 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11171 23213 33235 Used With Text: Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
GROSSER GOTT
GREAT AND MIGHTY
Meter: Irregular Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Marlene Bigley Topics: Magnify the Lord; Adoration and Praise God Our Father Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 33321 23213 33432 Used With Text: Great and Mighty
GREAT AND MIGHTY
Great and Mighty
Author: Marlene Bigley Hymnal: The Celebration Hymnal #129 (1997) Meter: Irregular Topics: Magnify the Lord; Adoration and Praise God Our Father First Line: Great and mighty is the Lord our God Languages: English Tune Title: GREAT AND MIGHTY
Great and Mighty
Great Is the Lord
Author: Michael W. Smith; Deborah D. Smith Hymnal: The Celebration Hymnal #140 (1997) Meter: Irregular Topics: Worship the Lord; Adoration and Praise God Our Father First Line: Great is the Lord and worthy of glory Refrain First Line: Great is the Lord, He is holy and just Languages: English Tune Title: GREAT IS THE LORD
Great Is the Lord
Great Are You, Lord
Author: Steve Cook; Vikki Cook Hymnal: The Celebration Hymnal #159 (1997) Meter: Irregular Topics: Worship the Lord; Adoration and Praise God Our Father; Adoration and Praise Jesus Our Savior First Line: Holy Lord, most holy Lord Languages: English Tune Title: GREAT ARE YOU, LORD
Great Are You, Lord
Robert Grant
1779 - 1838 Topics: Glorify the Lord; Adoration and Praise God Our Father Author (sts. 1-4) of "O Worship the King" in The Celebration Hymnal Robert Grant (b. Bengal, India, 1779; d. Dalpoorie, India, 1838) was influenced in writing this text by William Kethe’s paraphrase of Psalm 104 in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter (1561). Grant’s text was first published in Edward Bickersteth’s Christian Psalmody (1833) with several unauthorized alterations. In 1835 his original six-stanza text was published in Henry Elliott’s Psalm and Hymns (The original stanza 3 was omitted in Lift Up Your Hearts).
Of Scottish ancestry, Grant was born in India, where his father was a director of the East India Company. He attended Magdalen College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1807. He had a distinguished public career a Governor of Bombay and as a member of the British Parliament, where he sponsored a bill to remove civil restrictions on Jews. Grant was knighted in 1834. His hymn texts were published in the Christian Observer (1806-1815), in Elliot’s Psalms and Hymns (1835), and posthumously by his brother as Sacred Poems (1839).
Bert Polman
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Grant, Sir Robert, second son of Mr. Charles Grant, sometime Member of Parliament for Inverness, and a Director of the East India Company, was born in 1785, and educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in 1806. Called to the English Bar in 1807, he became Member of Parliament for Inverness in 1826; a Privy Councillor in 1831; and Governor of Bombay, 1834. He died at Dapoorie, in Western India, July 9, 1838. As a hymnwriter of great merit he is well and favourably known. His hymns, "O worship the King"; "Saviour, when in dust to Thee"; and "When gathering clouds around I view," are widely used in all English-speaking countries. Some of those which are less known are marked by the same graceful versification and deep and tender feeling. The best of his hymns were contributed to the Christian Observer, 1806-1815, under the signature of "E—y, D. R."; and to Elliott's Psalms & Hymns, Brighton, 1835. In the Psalms & Hymns those which were taken from the Christian Observer were rewritten by the author. The year following his death his brother, Lord Glenelg, gathered 12 of his hymns and poems together, and published them as:— Sacred Poems. By the late Eight Hon. Sir Robert Grant. London, Saunders & Otley, Conduit Street, 1839. It was reprinted in 1844 and in 1868.
This volume is accompanied by a short "Notice," dated "London, Juno 18, 1839."
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Grant, Sir R., p. 450, i. Other hymns are:—
1. From Olivet's sequester'd scats. Palm Sunday.
2. How deep the joy, Almighty Lord. Ps. lxxxiv.
3. Wherefore do the nations wage. Ps. ii.
These are all from his posthumous sacred Poems, 1839.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Robert Grant
Bruce Greer
Topics: Bless the Lord; Adoration and Praise God Our Father Arranger (last stanza setting and choral ending) of "KREMSER" in The Celebration Hymnal
Bruce Greer
Matthias Greiter
1495 - 1550 Person Name: Matthäus Greiter, ca. 1500-1552 Topics: Alleluias; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Biblical Names and Places Zion; Church Year Advent; Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; God Light from; God Trust in; God as Refuge; God as Creator; God as King; God's Generosity; God's Justice; Grace; Gratitude; Hymns of Praise; Jesus Christ Healer; Joy; Life Stages Orphans; Life Stages Widows; Lord's Prayer 4th petition (give us today our daily bread); Mercy; Occasional Services Funerals; People of God / Church Citizens of Heaven; People of God / Church Suffering; Poverty; Prayer; Social Justice; The Creation; Year A, Advent, 34d Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 30-November 5; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 4-10; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 5-11 (if after Trinity Sunday); Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 25-October 1 Composer of "OLD 113TH" in Psalms for All Seasons Greitter, Matthäus, was a monk and chorister of Strassburg Cathedral, but in 1524 espoused the cause of the Reformation. In 1528 he was appointed assistant pastor of St. Martin's Church, and afterwards at St. Stephen's. When the Interim [Agricola] was forced on Strassburg, he was the only one of the Lutheran pastors that sought to further it, a course which he afterwards deeply regretted. His death is dated by Wetzel, i. 349, as Dec. 20, 1550; by the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, ix. 636, as Nov. 20, 1550; while Koch, ii. 104, says he died of the pestilence in 1552.
Greitter was a distinguished musician, and with his friend Dachstein (q.v.) edited the Strassburg Kirchen ampt, 1524-5. Four psalm tunes by Greitter, and one by Dachstein were inserted by Calvin in his first Hymnbook published at Strassburg, 1539. All these were transferred to the first edition of the French-Genevan Psalter in 1542, and two of them, both by Greitter (the tunes to psalms 36 and 91), were retained in the final edition of 1562. Of his seven Psalm versions 4 have been translated into English :—
i. Ach Gott, wie lang vergissest mein. Ps. xiii. 1524. Wackernagel, iii. p. 89, in 4 st. Translated as, "O Lord, how lang forever wil thow foirget," in the Gude and Godly Ballates, ed. 1568, folio 46 (1868, p. 78).
ii. Da Israel aus Egypten zog. Ps. cxiv. In Die Zwen Psalmen: In exitu Israel, &c, Strassburg, 1527, thence in Wackernagel, iii. p. 93, in 2 stanzas. Translated as, "Quhen, fra Egypt departit Israeli," In the Gude & Godly Ballates, ed. 1568, folio 56 (1868, p. 95).
iii. Nicht uns, nicht uns, o ewiger Herr. Ps. cxv, 1527, as ii., and Wackernagel, iii. p. 93, in 4 st. Translated as, “Not unto us, not unto us, O Lord," in the G. & G. Ballates, ed. 1568, folio 56 (1868, p. 95).
iv. 0 Herre Gott, begnade mich. Ps. li. 1525. Wackernagel, iii. p. 90, in 5 st. Translated as, "O Lorde God, have mercy on me," by Bishop Coverdale, 1539 (Remains, 1846, p. 574). [Rev.James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Matthias Greiter
