We the joyful sound have heard

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We the joyful sound have heard

Author: James Relly
Published in 3 hymnals

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We the joyful sound have heard,
And, hearing, have believ'd;
What the gospel hath declar'd,
We, sinners, have receiv'd:
Blasted lies the creature's pride,
And human haughtiness sinks low;
Jesus, and him cruciiy'd,
Is all the bliss, we know.

Source: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: selected and original, designed for the use of the Church Universal in public and private devotion #CCCVIII

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Author: James Relly

James Relly was born about 1722 at Jeffreston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, and died in 1778. He was converted to Christianity during the Great Awakening ushered in by George Whitefield. He worked under George Whitefield as a Calvinistic Methodist preacher and missionary. However, Whitefield and Relly separated ways over Relly's seemingly universalist teaching that all humanity was elect (i.e. saved) when Christ took the punishment for all sin when he died. He also departed from both the Calvinists and Methodists by taking the doctrine of Justification further, in teaching that believers no longer sin and the Law's sole purpose is to condemn humanity and point them to Christ. He was the mentor of John Murray, the founder of the Universalist Ch… Go to person page >

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