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We the joyful sound have heard

Author: James Relly Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.8.7.6 Appears in 3 hymnals

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We the joyful Sound have heard

Hymnal: Christian Hymns, Poems, and Spiritual Songs #I.LXXX (1776) Lyrics: We the joyful Sound have heard, And, hearing, have believ'd; What the Gospel hath declar'd, We, Sinners, have receiv'd: Blasted lies the Creature's Pride, And human Haughtiness sinks low; Jesus, and him crucify'd, Is all the Bliss we know. Topics: After Preaching Languages: English

We the joyful sound have heard

Author: James Relly Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #211 (1808)

After Preaching

Author: James Relly Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #CCCVIII (1792) Meter: Irregular First Line: We the joyful sound have heard Lyrics: We the joyful sound have heard, And, hearing, have believ'd; What the gospel hath declar'd, We, sinners, have receiv'd: Blasted lies the creature's pride, And human haughtiness sinks low; Jesus, and him cruciiy'd, Is all the bliss, we know. Topics: Hymns, adapted to Particular Parts of Public Worship Scripture: Psalm 44:1 Languages: English

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James Relly

1722 - 1778 Author of "We the joyful sound have heard" 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/)