The Trinity

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Hail, holy, holy, holy Lord, Whom One in three we know

Author: Charles Wesley
Published in 71 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 Hail! holy, holy, holy Lord!
whom One in Three we know;
By all Thy heav'nly host adored,
by all Thy church below,
by all Thy church below.

2 One undivided Trinity
with triumph we proclaim;
Thy universe is full of Thee
and speaks Thy glorious name,
and speaks Thy glorious name.

3 Thee, Holy Father, we confess,
Thee, Holy Son, adore,
Thee, Spirit of truth and holiness,
we worship evermore,
we worship evermore.

4 Thee Persons equally divine
we magnify and love;
And both the choirs ere long shall join
to sing Thy praise above,
to sing Thy praise above.

5 Hail! holy, holy, holy Lord,
our heavenly song shall be;
Supreme, essential One, adored
in co-eternal Three,
in co-eternal Three.

Source: Our Great Redeemer's Praise #24

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Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Hail, holy, holy, holy Lord, Whom One in three we know
Title:	The Trinity
Author:	Charles Wesley
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Hail, holy, holy, holy Lord, Whom One in Three. C. Wesley. [Holy Trinity.] From Hymns on the Trinity, 1767, into The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904. (Poetical Works, vi., p. 280.)

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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DUNFERMLINE

DUNFERMLINE is one of the "common" tunes from Andro Hart's psalter The CL Psalms of David, Edinburgh (l615)–a "common" tune was one that was not matched with a specific text in a songbook. Millar Patrick, author of Four Centuries of Scottish Psalmody (London, 1949) and The Story of the Church's So…

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DOGGETT

DUNDEE (Ravenscroft)

DUNDEE first appeared in the 1615 edition of the Scottish Psalter published in Edinburgh by Andro Hart. Called a "French" tune (thus it also goes by the name of FRENCH), DUNDEE was one of that hymnal's twelve "common tunes"; that is, it was not associated with a specific psalm. In the Psalter Hymnal…

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