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All-powerful, self-existent God

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All-powerful, self-existent God

Published in 91 hymnals

Representative Text

1 All-powerful, self-existent God,
Who all creation dost sustain!
Thou wast, and art, and art to come;
And everlasting is Thy reign.

2 Fix'd and eternal as Thy days,
Each glorious attribute divine,
Thro' ages infinite, shall still
With undiminish'd lustre shine.

3 Fountain of being! Source of good!
Immutable dost Thou remain;
Nor can the shadow of a change
Obscure the glories of Thy reign.

4 Earth may with all her powers dissolve,
If such the great Creator's will;
But Thou for ever art the same;
"I Am" is Thy memorial still.

Source: Book of Worship (Rev. ed.) #56

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Scripture References

First Line:	All-powerful, self-existent God
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Source:	Walker's Collection
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 102
(hymns)

Notes

All powerful, self-existent God. [God unchangeable.] Published anonymously in B. Williams's Collection of Hymns for Public Worship on the General Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion, Salisbury, 1778, No. 3, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines and headed "The Immortality of God." It is based on Ps. cii. v. 27. In 1781 it was also included in his Book of Psalms, Salisb., p. 286, as version vi. of Ps. cii. After passing through several Unitarian Collections, it appeared in Longfellow and Johnson's American Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, No. 80, in 3 stanzas, being st. i., iii., and vi. of the original in an altered form. [William T. Brooke]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Tune

HEBRON (Mason)

PILESGROVE

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The Sanctuary Hymnal, published by Order of the General Conference of the United Brethren in Christ (1914), p.61

Instances

Instances (1 - 91 of 91)

A Baptist Hymn Book, Designed Especially for the Regular Baptist Church and All Lovers of Truth #d15

A Collection of Hymns and a Liturgy for the Use of Evangelical Lutheran Churches #33

A Collection of Hymns and a Liturgy #33

A Collection of Hymns and A Liturgy #33

A Collection of Hymns and Prayers, for Public and Private Worship #6

A Collection of Hymns for Public and Private Worship approved by the Presbytery of Charleston #d5

A Collection of Hymns, for the Christian Church and Home #47

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship #100

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (10th ed.) #100

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (6th ed.) #100

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. (3rd ed.) #100

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. (45th ed.) #100

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. 16th ed. #100

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Sanctuary #192

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the use of Universalist Societies and Families (13th ed.) #111

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of Universalist Societies and Families 16ed. #111

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship #127

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship (Rev. ed. with supplement) #127

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns #107

A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #266

A Selection of Hymns and Psalms for Social and Private Worship (2nd ed. Enl. and Imp.) #87

A Selection of Hymns and Psalms for Social and Private Worship (6th ed.) #88

A Selection of Hymns and Psalms, for Social and Private Worship. (11th ed.) #88

A Selection of Hymns and Psalms #87

A Selection of Sacred Poetry #107

A Selection of Sacred Poetry #107

Book of Worship (Rev. ed.) #56

Book of Worship #56

Christian Psalms and Hymns to Aid in Public and Private Devotion #d21

Church Harmonies #185

Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #d17

Church Psalmody #H17

Church Psalmody #17

Compilation of Hymns for the Use of the Churches of the Christian Union #d15

Hymn and Tune Book, for the Church and the Home #130

Hymn Book for Christian Worship #137

Hymn Book for Christian Worship. 8th ed. #a137

Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church #11

Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church. (11th ed.) #11

Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church. (2nd ed.) #19

Hymn book of the Methodist Protestant Church. (4th ed.) #19

Hymns for Christian Devotion #146

Hymns for Christian Devotion #146

Hymns for Sunday Schools #69

Hymns for the Church of Christ (3rd thousand) #134

Hymns for the Church of Christ. (6th thousand) #134

Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship #178

Hymns of the "Jubilee Harp" #a12

Hymns of the Spirit #280

Hymns of Worship #107

Hymns, Collects, Anthems and Selections #d6

Hymns, Selected and Original, for Public and Private Worship #21

Hymns, Selected and Original, for Public and Private Worship, published by General Synod for the Evangelical Lutheran Church. 68th ed. (8th rev. ed.) #d13

Hymns, Selected and Original #21

Hymns, Selected from Various Authors, for the Use of the Unitarian Church in Washington #d5

Hymns #21

Hymns #21

Hymns #21

Hymns #21

Manual of Christian Psalmody #17

Massachusetts Sabbath School Hymn Book #d5

Melodies of the Church #d17

Pocket Hymns #3

Prayers and Hymns for the Church and the Home #d12

Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship #d21

Psalms and Hymns #19

Sacred Poetry #4

Select Hymns #d15

Select Hymns #8

Selection from Tate and Brady's Version of the Psalms; with Hymns by Various Authors, for the Church in Brattle-Square #d6

The Choral #d4

The Christian Hymn Book #d15

The Christian Hymn Book. 7th ed. #d16

The Christian Psalmist #d14

The Christian Psalmist #15

The Christian Psalter #d11

The Church Hymn Book #d18

The Gospel Psalmist #84

The Harp #11

The Harp. 2nd ed. #a11

The Jubilee Harp #12

The Key-Stone Collection of Church Music #94b

The Lyrica #16

The Philadelphia Hymn Book; or, a selection of sacred poetry, consisting of psalms and hymns from Watts...and others, adapted to public and private devotion #107

The Pocket Selection of Hymns for the Use of Evangelical Churches and Religious Assemblies in the U. S. lst ed. #d5

The Psalms of Life #97

The Sabbath School Lyre #d3

The Sabbath School Lyre #75

The Saints' Harp #d34

The Sanctuary Hymnal, published by Order of the General Conference of the United Brethren in Christ #87

Universalist Hymn Book #d12

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