Then Come and Tarry Not

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Thou camest once nor had a home

Author: Charles Price Jones
Tune: [Thou camest once nor had a home]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Thou camest once nor had a home
Where Thou Thy head couldst lay,
But we're expecting Thee to come
A mighty Prince some day.

Refrain:
Then come and tarry not,
All creation 'waits the day;
Then come and tarry not,
All creation awaits the day.

2 Thou wast despised and lowly then,
A teacher of the poor;
But when Thou shalt appear again
Who shall the hour endure? [Refrain]

3 Thou warest then a crown of thorns
When suff'ring for our sin;
But crown of crowns shall Thee adorn
When Thou shalt come again. [Refrain]

4 They mock'd Thee with a purple robe,
And with a reed did shame,
But then shall all upon this globe
Bow to Thy mighty name. [Refrain]

Source: His Fullness Songs #184

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Author: Charles Price Jones

Charles Price Jones born December 9, 1865, near Rome, Georgia. He grew up in Kingston, Georgia, and attended the Baptist church. He was converted in 1884 while living in Cat Island, Arkansas. In 1885 he was called to the ministry and began preaching. In 1888 he attended Arkansas Baptist College and taught school in Grant County, Arkansas. He preached and pastored several Baptist churches. After asking God for a deeper experience of grace and fasting and praying for three days, Jones experienced a closeness with God, and in 1895, along with other Baptist holiness adherents, who taught that a second work of grace can cleanse the Christian of original sin. They started a holiness movement in the Baptist church, and he began teaching holiness i… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Thou camest once nor had a home
Title:	Then Come and Tarry Not
Author:	Charles Price Jones
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Then come and tarry not
Copyright:	Public Domain