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This is the fast, which [that] I will choose
Author: James Relly Appears in 2 hymnals
This is the fast, which [that] I will choose
This is the fast, which [that] I will choose
Author: James Relly Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #78 (1808)
This is the fast, which [that] I will choose
The Fasting of Jesus
Author: James Relly Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #CXX (1792) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: This is the fas that I will choose Lyrics: 1 This is the fast that I will choose,
The burdens to undo;
The hands of wickedness to loose,
And let the pris'ner go:
2 Let such as are opprest be freed,
Break ev'ry yoke in twain,
Gladly supply the brethren's need,
And thus allay their pain:
3 To hungry souls to deal thy bread,
Nor thrust them from thy door,
But in thine house a table spread,
For all the cast out poor:
4 To all the naked cov'ring give,
Their drooping hearts refresh;
Nor hide thyself, whilst thou dost live,
From those who're thine own flesh.
5 Attentive to the heav'nly word
We stand convicted deep,
That we ourselves, before the Lord,
This fast can never keep:
6 But up we look unto our head,
Jesus the fast hath kept;
And us in him thro' all he did,
The Father doth accept.
7 He kept the fast, which God did choose;
Our burdens did undo;
Our hands of wickedness did loose,
And let the pris'ners go:
8 From sin's oppression us he freed,
Brake ev'ry yoke in twain,
Gladly supply'd his brethren's need,
And sav'd us from hell's pain.
9 To us he deals the living bread,
Nor thrusts us from his door;
But to his house, and table spread,
He brings us cast out poor.
10 Cloth'd with the labours of his cross,
He did our hearts refresh;
Nor did he hide himself from us,
But calls us his own flesh.
11 Hail, Alpha and Omega, hail!
All hail, thou first and last!
O'er all our foes we shall prevail,
For thou hast kept the fast:
12 Complete in thee, our dearest Lord,
They works as ours are known:
We now encourag'd by thy word,
Conclude thy fast's our own.
Topics: Hymns, on the Life of Immanuel, the Head of every Man Scripture: Matthew 3:1-2 Languages: English
The Fasting of Jesus
James Relly
1722 - 1778 Author of "This is the fast, which I will choose" James Relly was born about 1722 at Jeffreston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, and died in 1778. He was converted to Christianity during the Great Awakening ushered in by George Whitefield. He worked under George Whitefield as a Calvinistic Methodist preacher and missionary. However, Whitefield and Relly separated ways over Relly's seemingly universalist teaching that all humanity was elect (i.e. saved) when Christ took the punishment for all sin when he died. He also departed from both the Calvinists and Methodists by taking the doctrine of Justification further, in teaching that believers no longer sin and the Law's sole purpose is to condemn humanity and point them to Christ.
He was the mentor of John Murray, the founder of the Universalist Church of America. Relly along with his brother John wrote Christian Hymns, Poems and Spiritual Songs in 1758, which John Murray had republished in America in 1776.
Dianne Shapiro; from an article by Alexander Gordon in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, vol. 48; Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography; and Disoriented. Reoriented. blog (https://disorientedtheology.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/all-shall-be-well-chapter-6-james-relly/)
James Relly
