The Sabbath

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Another six days work is done, another Sabbath is begun

Author: Joseph Stennett (1743)
Published in 449 hymnals

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1 Another six days' work is done,
Another Sabbath is begun;
Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest,
Improve the day that God has blessed.

2 Come, bless the Lord, whose love assigns
So sweet a rest to weary minds;
A blessed antepast is giv'n,
On this day more than all the sev'n.

3 O that our thoughts and thanks may rise
As grateful incense to the skies,
And draw from Christ that sweet repose
Which none but he who feels it knows.

4 This heav'nly calm within the breast
Is the best pledge of glorious rest,
Which for the church of God remains,
The end of cares, the end of pains.

Source: Christ in Song: for all religious services nearly one thousand best gospel hymns, new and old with responsive scripture readings (Rev. and Enl.) #430

Author: Joseph Stennett

The author was a Baptist preacher in London, from 1690, to his death in 1713. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Another six days work is done, another Sabbath is begun
Title: The Sabbath
Author: Joseph Stennett (1743)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Another six days' work is done. J. Stennett. [Sunday.] This poem "On the Sabbath" appeared as one of his "Miscellany Poems," in his Works, 1732, vol. iv. pp. 231-234, in 14 stanzas of 4 lines. In its full form it is unknown to any hymnal: but centos therefrom are in modern collections, nearly all beginning with the first stanza as above:—
1. A cento in 6 stanzas in the Bristol Baptist Collection of Ash and Evans, 1769, from whence it has passed through a series of Baptist Hymnals to theRead More

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