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Come, dearest Lord, and feed Thy sheep

Come, dearest Lord, and feed Thy sheep

Author: John Mason
Published in 42 hymnals

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1 Come, dearest Lord, and feed thy sheep,
On this sweet day of rest;
O bless this flock, and make this fold
Enjoy a heav'nly rest,
Enjoy a heav'nly rest.

2 Welcome and precious to my soul
Are these sweet days of love,
But what a Sabbath shall I keep
When I shall rest above,
When I shall rest above!

3 O, if my soul, when Christ appears,
In this sweet frame be found,
I'll clasp my Saviour in my arms,
And leave this earthly ground,
And leave this earthly ground!

Source: Christ in Song: for all religious services nearly one thousand best gospel hymns, new and old with responsive scripture readings (Rev. and Enl.) #433

Author: John Mason

Mason, John. The known facts of his life are scanty. He was the son of a Dissenting Minister, and the grandfather of John Mason, the author of A Treatise on Self-Knowledge. He was educated at Strixton School, Northants, and Clare Hall, Cambridge. After taking his M.A., he became Curate of Isham; and in 1668, Vicar of Stantonbury, Bucks. A little more than five years afterwards he was appointed Rector of Water-Stratford. Here he composed the volume containing The Songs of Praise, his paraphrase of The Song of Solomon, and the Poem on Dives and Lazarus, with which Shepherd's Penitential Cries was afterwards bound up. This volume passed through twenty editions. Besides the Songs of Praise, it contains six Penitential Cries by Mason, and it i… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Come, dearest Lord, and feed Thy sheep
Author: John Mason
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Baptist Hymn Book, Designed Especially for the Regular Baptist Church and All Lovers of Truth #d123

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A New Selection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #330

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A Selection of Favorite Conference Hymns with Historical Sketches of Church History #70

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Baptist Hymn Book #a437

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Better Than Pearls #126

Christ in Song #d82

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Christ in Song #433

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Hymns and Tunes #64

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Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship #66

Hymns for Use in Divine Worship ... Seventh-Day Adventists #d176

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Hymns of Worship #53

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Hymns, Selected and Original, for Public and Private Worship #627

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Hymns, Selected and Original #627

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Hymns #627

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Hymns #627

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Hymns #627

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Hymns #627

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Plymouth Collection #a28

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Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations #28

Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune book #268

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Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune Book #268

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The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book #28

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The Baptist Hymn Book #437

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The Baptist Praise Book #51

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The Otterbein Hymnal #45

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The People's Hymnal #45

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The Psalms and Hymns #38b

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The Reformed Church Hymnal #116

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The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #229

The Song Evangel #d32

The Song Evangel #ad32

The Southern Psalmist #d113

The Southern Psalmist. New ed. #d121

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