The Fullness of Blessing

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Holy Spirit, dwell with me, make me holy, like to Thee

Author: Charles Wesley
Tune: [Take my life and let it be] (Bradbury)
Published in 16 hymnals

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1 Holy Spirit, dwell with me,
Make me holy, like to thee;
Bring thou ev’ry tho’t of mine
Into harmony with thine;
Bring thou ev’ry tho’t of mine
Into harmony with thine.

Refrain:
Fill thou me! fill thou me!
All my heart I yield to thee!
With thy holiness divine
Fill this longing heart of mine!

2 Loving Spirit, come to me,
Make me loving, like to thee;
To its depths my being stir,
Print my Master’s likeness there;
To its depths my being stir,
Print my Master’s likeness there. [Refrain]

3 Mighty Spirit, live in me,
I would heav’nly-minded be;
Let my heart its Sovereign own,
Christ its center—Christ alone;
Let my heart its Sovereign own,
Christ its center—Christ alone. [Refrain]

4 Glorious Spirit, fill thou me!
This poor heart I yield to thee;
Take me body, spirit, soul,
Let thy life pervade the whole;
Take me body, spirit, soul,
Let thy life pervade the whole. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Matchless Love: for evangelistic services, devotional meetings and Sunday schools #25

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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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Text Information

First Line:	Holy Spirit, dwell with me, make me holy, like to Thee
Title:	The Fullness of Blessing
Author:	Charles Wesley
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Fill Thou me! fill Thou me!
Copyright:	Public Domain

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[Take my life and let it be] (Bradbury)

According to the Handbook to the Baptist Hymnal (1992), Yarbrough "has been attributed to William B. Bradbury, but there is no evidence for this. Its earliest publication seems to have been in New Life (Nashville, 1880) with the arrangement credited to Rigdon M. McIntosh." (p.239), However, the tune…

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