I Will Not Let Thee Go

I will not let Thee go, Thou guest divine

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Tune: I WILL NOT LET THEE GO
Published in 5 hymnals

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1 I will not let Thee go, Thou Guest di­vine,
Until Thy name I know, by word or sign;
Art Thou the Man who died, between thieves cru­ci­fied?
Until Thy name I know,bI will not let Thee go.

2 What though the day should break, the sha­dows flee,
Thy leave Thou shalt not take, I’ll cleave to Thee;
Thy touch my pow­ers may numb, till, halt­ing, I suc­cumb,
But till Thy name I know, I will not let Thee go.

3 What marks are these I see, upon Thy brow?
O Man of Cal­va­ry, I read Thee now;
I read Thy lin­eage well: make Ja­cob, Is­ra­el!
My suit till Thou be­stow, I will not let Thee go.

4 The cross Thou didst en­dure. the cup, the shame;
Ah, yes, I’m doub­ly sure Thou art the same:
The Rock, once ri­ven for me, the Rod, that smote death’s sea,
Thy bless­ing floods me so, O, Lord! I let Thee go!


Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16101

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin

Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book,… Go to person page >

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First Line: I will not let Thee go, Thou guest divine
Title: I Will Not Let Thee Go
Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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