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Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,862 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heav'n to earth come down; fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter ev'ry trembling heart. 2 Come almighty to deliver; let us all thy life receive; suddenly return and never, nevermore thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above, pray and praise thee without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. 3 Finish then thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be; let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee, changed from glory into glory, till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise! Scripture: Psalm 106:4 Used With Tune: HYFRYDOL

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TANYCASTELL

Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Parch John Jones, Talsarn Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11177 22314 4433 Used With Text: Love Divine, all love exceling

DULCE CARMEN

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 237 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. H. Monk, 1823-89 Tune Sources: An Essay on the Church Plain Chant, 1782; Adapt. Collection of Motetts of Antiphons, c. 1840 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 12345 43211 14321 Used With Text: Love Divine, All Love Excelling

LOVE DIVINE

Appears in 461 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mozart Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 11113 22112 22243 Used With Text: Love divine, all love excelling

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Finish then thy new creation

Hymnal: The Methodist Harmonist, containing a collection of tunes from the best authors, embracing every variety of metre, and adapted to the worship of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New ed. #289.310 (1833)

Love devine, all love excelling

Hymnal: Purest Gems #225 (1891) Languages: English

Love divine, all lives excelling

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Hymnal: The Cambridge Hymnal #70 (1967) Tune Title: HYFRYDOL

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George Whitefield

1714 - 1770 Person Name: Whitefield Author of "Love Divine, all love excelling" in Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, as authorized by the General Convention

William Henry Monk

1823 - 1889 Person Name: W. H. Monk, 1823-89 Arranger of "DULCE CARMEN" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary William H. Monk (b. Brompton, London, England, 1823; d. London, 1889) is best known for his music editing of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861, 1868; 1875, and 1889 editions). He also adapted music from plainsong and added accompaniments for Introits for Use Throughout the Year, a book issued with that famous hymnal. Beginning in his teenage years, Monk held a number of musical positions. He became choirmaster at King's College in London in 1847 and was organist and choirmaster at St. Matthias, Stoke Newington, from 1852 to 1889, where he was influenced by the Oxford Movement. At St. Matthias, Monk also began daily choral services with the choir leading the congregation in music chosen according to the church year, including psalms chanted to plainsong. He composed over fifty hymn tunes and edited The Scottish Hymnal (1872 edition) and Wordsworth's Hymns for the Holy Year (1862) as well as the periodical Parish Choir (1840-1851). Bert Polman