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A Collection of Hymn Tunes from the most modern and approved authors
Publication Date: 1783 Publisher: Wm Law Publication Place: Cheshire, Conn.
A Collection of Hymn Tunes from the most modern and approved authors
Before Sacrament
Appears in 101 hymnals First Line: Come, let us ascend Lyrics: 1 Come let us ascend,
My companion and friend,
To a taste of the banquet above:
If tine heart be as mine,
If for Jesus it pine,
Come up into the chariot of love.
2 Who in Jesus confide,
They are bold to outride
The storms of affliction beneath:
With the prophet they soar
To that heav'nly shore,
And outfly all the arrows of death.
3 By faith we are come
To our permanent home,
By hope we the rapture improve:
By love we still rise,
And look down on the skies –
For the heaven of heavens is love!
4 Who on earth can conceive
How happy we live
In the city of God the great King!
What a concert of praise,
When our Jesus's grace,
The whole heavenly company sing!
5 What a rapturous song
When the glorify'd throng
In the spirit of harmony join?
Join all the glad choirs,
Hearts, voices and lyres,
And the burthen is mercy divine.
6 Hallelujah they cry
To the King of the sky,
To the great everlasting I Am,
To the Lamb who was slain,
And liveth again,
Hallelujah to God and the Lamb!
Before Sacrament
To the Trinity
Appears in 1,797 hymnals First Line: Come, thou Almighty King Lyrics: 1 Come, thou Almighty King,
Help us thy name to sing,
Help us to praise!
Father all glorious,
O'er all victorious!
Come and reign over us,
Ancient of days!
2 Jesus our Lord, arise,
Scatter our enemies,
And make them fall!
Let thine Almighty aid,
Our sure defence be made,
Our souls on thee be stay'd;
Lord hear our call!
3 Come, thou incarnate word,
Gird on thy mighty sword -
Our pray'r attend!
Come! and thy people bless,
And give thy word success,
Spirit of holiness
On us descend!
4 Come holy Comforter,
Thy sacred witness bear,
In this glad hour!
Thou who Almighty art,
Decend in ev'ry heart,
And ne'er from us depart.
Spirit of pow'r.
5 To the great one in three
Eternal praises be
Hence - evermore!
His sov'reign Majesty
May we in glory see,
And to eternity
Love and adore!
To the Trinity
Hearts of stone, relent, relent
Appears in 218 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Hearts of stone relent relent,
Break, by Jesus cross subdu'd,
See his body mangled, rent,
Cover'd with a gore of blood,
Sinful soul, what hast thou done?
Murther'd God's eternal Son!
2 Yes our sins have done the deed,
Drove the nails that fixt him here,
Crown'd with thorns his sacred head,
Pierc'd him with a soldier's spear,
Made his soul a sacrifice:
For a sinful world he dies.
3 Shall we let him die in vain?
Still to death pursue our God?
Open tear his wounds again,
Trample on his precious blood?
No; with all our sins we part –
Saviour, take my broken heart.
Hearts of stone, relent, relent
The Christian's Complaint, and Prayer for the Impenitent
Hymnal: CHSW1783 #XII (1783) First Line: Ah! woe is me, constrain'd to dwell Lyrics: 1 Ah! woe is me, constrain'd to dwell,
Among the sons of night:
Poor sinners dropping into hell,
Who hate the gospel light:
Wild as the untam'd Arab's race,
Who from their Saviour fly;
And trample on his pard'ning grace,
And all his threats defy.
2 Yet here alas! in pain I live,
Where Satan keeps his seat,
And day bey day for those I grieve,
Who will to sin submit.
With gushing eyes their deeds I see,
Their punishment is nigh,
I ask with him who ransom'd me,
Why will you sin and die?
3 Jesus, Redeemer of mankind,
Display thy saving pow'r;
Thy mercy let those outcasts find,
To know their gracious hour.
Ah! give them Lord a longer space,
Nor suddenly consume,
But let them take the proffer'd grace,
And flee the wrath to come.
4 Open their eyes and ears to see
Thy cross, to hear the cries,
Sinner thy Saviour weeps for thee,
For thee he weeps and dies.
All the day long he meekly stands,
His rebels to receive;
And shows his wounds, and spreads his hands,
And bids you turn and live. Languages: English
The Christian's Complaint, and Prayer for the Impenitent
On the death of Miss R.
Hymnal: CHSW1783 #XLV (1783) First Line: And is the lovely shadow fled Lyrics: 1 And is the lovely shadow fled.
The blooming wonder of her years,
So soon inshrin'd among the dead.
She justly claims our pious tears:
who now to heav'nly spirits join;d,
Hath left our wretched world behind.
2 Her earthly shortliv'd excellence
With meek submission we bemoan,
Snatch'd in a fatal movement hence,
Gone from our arms to Jesus gone,
To heighten by her swift remove
The grief below, and joy above.
3 In vain the dear departing saint
Forbids our gushing tears to flow,
Forbear my friends your fond complaint,
From earth to heav'n I gladly go,
To glorious company above,
Bright angels, and the God of love.
4 O praise him and rejoice for me
So happy, happy in my God!
So sonn from all my pain set free,
And hasten to that blest abode,
With swift desire my steps pursue,
And take the prize prepar'd for you.
5 Meet am I for the great reward,
The great reward I know is mine,
Come O my sweet redeeming Lord,
Open those lovely arms of thine,
And take me up thy face to see,
And let me die to live with thee.
6 The pray'r is seal'd the soul is fled,
And sees the Saviour face to face:
But still she speaks to us though dead.
She calls us to that heav'nly place,
Where all the storms of life are o'er,
And pain and parting is no more. Languages: English
On the death of Miss R.
An Act of Faith
Hymnal: CHSW1783 #XIII (1783) First Line: Away my unbelieving fear Lyrics: 1 Away, my unbelieving fear!
Fear shall in me no more take place!
My Saviour doth not yet appear,
He hides the brightness of his face;
But shall I therefore let him go,
And basely to the tempter yield?
No, in the strength of Jesus, no!
I never will give up the shield.
2 Although the vine its fruit deny,
Although the olive yield no oil,
The with'ring fig-tree droop and die,
The field illude the tiller's toil;
The empty stall no herd afford,
And perish all the bleating race;
Yet I will triumph in the Lord,
The God of my salvation praise.
3 Barren although my soul remain,
And no one bud of grace appear,
No fruit of all my toil and pain,
But sin and only sin is here;
Although my gifts and comforts lost,
My blooming hopes cut off I see,
Yet will I win my Saviour trust,
And glory that he dy'd for me.
4 In hope, believing against hope,
Jesus my Lord and God I claim,
Jesus my strength shall lift me up,
Salvation is in Jesu's name;
To me he soon shall bring it nigh,
My soul shall then outstrip the wind,
On wings of love mount up on high,
And leave the world and sin behind.
Languages: English
An Act of Faith
Felice Giardini
1716 - 1796 Person Name: Giardini Hymnal Number: 5a Composer of "TRINITY" in A Collection of Hymn Tunes from the most modern and approved authors Felice Giardini, born in Italy. When young, he studied singing, harpsichord, and violin. He became a composer and violin virtuoso. By age 12 he was playing in theatre orchestras. His most instructive lesson: While playing a solo passage during an opera, he decided to show off his skills by improvising several bravura variations that the composer, Jommelli, had not written . Although the audience applauded loudly, Jomelli, who happened to be there, went up and slapped Giardini in the face. He learned a lesson from that. He toured Europe as a violinist, considered one of the greatest musical artists of his time. He served as orchestra leader and director of the Italian Opera in London, giving concerts. He tried to run a theatre in Naples, but encountered adversity. He went to Russia, but had little fortune there, where he died.
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Felice Giardini
Martin Madan
1726 - 1790 Person Name: Dr. Madan Hymnal Number: 5b Composer of "HALLIFAX" in A Collection of Hymn Tunes from the most modern and approved authors Madan, Martin, son of Colonel Martin Madan, and brother of Dr. Spencer Madan, sometime Bishop of Peterborough, was born in 1726. He was to have qualified for the Bar, but through a sermon by J. Wesley on the words "Prepare to meet thy God," the whole current of his life was changed. After some difficulty he received Holy Orders, and subsequently founded and became chaplain of the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner. He was popular as a preacher, and had no inconsiderable reputation as a musical composer. He ceased preaching on the publication of his work Thelyphthora, in which he advocated the practice of polygamy. He died in 1790. He published A Commentary on the Articles of the Church of England; A Treatise on the Christian Faith, &c, and:- A Collection of Psalms and Hymns Extracted from Various Authors, and published by the Reverend Mr. Madan. London, 1760.
This Collection contained 170 hymns thrown together without order or system of any kind. In 1763 he added an Appendix of 24 hymns. This Collection, referred to as Madam’s Psalms & Hymns, had for many years a most powerful influence on the hymnody of the Church of England. Nearly the whole of its contents, together with its extensively altered texts, were reprinted in numerous hymnbooks for nearly one hundred years. At the present time many of the great hymns of the last century are in use as altered by him in 1760 and 1763. Although several hymns have been attributed to him, we have no evidence that he ever wrote one. His hymnological labours were employed in altering, piecing, and expanding the work of others. And in this he was most successful.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Martin Madan
William Hammond
1719 - 1783 Hymnal Number: XXII Author of "Lord we come before thee now" in A Collection of Hymn Tunes from the most modern and approved authors Hammond, William, B.A, born at Battle, Sussex, Jan. 6, 1719, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1743 he joined the Calvinistic Methodists; and in 1745, the Moravian Brethren. He died in London, Aug. 19, 1783, and was buried in the Moravian burial-ground, Sloane Street, Chelsea. He left an Autobiography in Greek, which remains unpublished. His original hymns, together with his translations from the Latin, were published in his:—
Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs. To which is prefix'd A Preface, giving some Account of a Weak Faith, and a Full Assurance of Faith; and briefly stating the Doctrine of Sanctification; and shewing a Christian's Completeness, Perfection, and Happiness in Christ. By William Hammond, A.B., late of St. John's College, Cambridge. London: Printed by W. Strahan; and sold by J. Oswald, at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry, mdccxlv.
A few of his original hymns from scriptural fidelity and earnestness have attained to a foremost position amongst English hymns. These include, "Awake, and sing the song," and "Lord, we come before Thee now." His translations of Latin hymns were amongst the earliest published after those contained in the Primers and other devotional works of 16th and 17th centuries. They are of merit, and worthy of attention. Greater use might also be made of his original compositions. In addition to those named above, the following are also in common use:—
1. Brightness of the Father's Face. God the Son.
2. How great the Christian's portion is. Possession of All in Christ.
3. If Jesus is yours. God's unchangeable Love.
4. In Thine own appointed way. Divine Worship.
5. Jesus, Who died the [a] world to save. Easter.
6. Lord, if on earth the thought of Thee. Heaven anticipated.
1. Now with joint consent we sing. Divine Worship.
8. O Lord, how little do we know. Quinquagesima.
9. Would you win a soul to God ? The Gospel Message.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
William Hammond
