The Spirit of Prayer

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The praying spirit breathe

Author: Charles Wesley
Published in 139 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	A Treasury of Hymn Settings, Volume 2

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1 The praying spirit breathe,
The watching power impart,
From all entanglements beneath
Call off my peaceful heart.

2 My feeble mind sustain,
By worldly thoughts oppressed;
Appear, and bid me turn again
To my eternal rest.

3 Swift to my rescue come,
Thine own this moment seize;
Gather my wandering spirit home,
And keep in perfect peace:

4 Suffer no more to rove
O'er all the earth abroad,
Arrest the prisoner of thy love,
And shut me up in God.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #652

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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:	The praying spirit breathe
Title:	The Spirit of Prayer
Author:	Charles Wesley
Meter:	6.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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LEIGHTON (Greatorex)

SHIRLAND (Stanley)

GOLDEN HILL

Hymn Tune Index No. 15646. Earliest source is Ananias Davisson, Kentucky Harmony, 2nd ed. (Harrisonburg: Ananias Davisson, 1817), credited to Davisson there, but in the 3rd ed. (1819) it was unattributed. HTI notes the similarity between this tune and No. 4077b, WORCESTER, which traces to Andrew Law…

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