Lord, In Mercy Hear Us

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Jesus all our ransom paid

Author: Thomas Benson Pollock
Published in 8 hymnals

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Part VI
"It is finished."

1 Jesus, all our ransom paid,
All Thy Father's will obeyed;
By Thy sufferings perfect made:
Hear us, Holy Jesus.

2 Save us in our soul's distress,
Be our Help to cheer and bless
While we grow in holiness:
Hear us, Holy Jesus.

3 Brighten all our heavenward way,
With an ever holier ray
Till we pass to perfect day:
Hear us, Holy Jesus.

Amen.

Source: The Lutheran Hymnal #185

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Author: Thomas Benson Pollock

Pollock, Thomas Benson, M.A., was born in 1836, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1863, where he also gained the Vice-Chancellor's Prize for English Verse in 1855. Taking Holy Orders in 1861, he was Curate of St. Luke's, Leek, Staffordshire; St. Thomas's, Stamford Hill, London; and St. Alban's, Birmingham. Mr. Pollock is a most successful writer of metrical Litanies. His Metrical Litanies for Special Services and General Use, Mowbray, Oxford, 1870, and other compositions of the same kind contributed subsequently to various collections, have greatly enriched modern hymnbooks. To the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern, Mr. Pollock contributed two hymns, “We are soldiers of Christ, Who is mighty to save… Go to person page >

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