Love-feast

While we walk with God in light

Author: Charles Wesley
Published in 27 hymnals

Representative Text

1 While we walk with God in light,
God our hearts doth still unite;
Dearest fellowship we prove,
Fellowship in Jesus' love:

2 Sweetly each, with each combined,
In the bonds of duty joined,
Feels the cleansing blood applied,
Daily feels that Christ hath died.

3 Still, O Lord, our faith increase;
Cleanse from all unrighteousness;
Thee the unholy cannot see,
Make, O make us meet for thee;

4 Every vile affection kill,
Root out every seed of ill,
Utterly abolish sin,
Write thy law of love within.

5 Hence may all our actions flow,
Love the proof that Christ we know;
Mutual love the token be,
Lord, that we belong to thee:

6 Love, thine image, love impart,
Stamp it now on every heart;
Only love to us be given;
Love, the crowning grace of heaven.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #1028

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 >

Text Information

First Line: While we walk with God in light
Title: Love-feast
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 7.7.7.7 D
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

While we walk with God in light. Part of “Partners of a glorious hope," noticed on p. 244, i. 5.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Tune

BLUMENTHAL

From Blumenthal's piano piece "Les Deux Anges," Opus 8, adapted as a hymn tune by Frederic W. Root.

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d972

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d978

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #880

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A Collection of Hymns for the use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America #720

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Free Methodist Hymnal #549

Hallowed Songs #d391

Hymn Book of the Holiness Movement Church #d565

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Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church #803

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Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church #803

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Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. ed. #720

Hymns for Use in Divine Worship ... Seventh-Day Adventists #d1312

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New Hymn and Tune book #349c

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New Hymn and Tune Book #349c

The American Hymn and Tune Book #d897

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The Centenary Singer #219

The Chapel Hymn Book #d393

The Gospel Hymnal #d704

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The Heart and Voice #319a

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The Heart and Voice #319c

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The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #902

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The Hymn Book of the Free Methodist Church #256

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The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #1028

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The Tribute of Praise and Methodist Protestant Hymn Book #475

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The Tribute of Praise #475

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The Tribute of Praise #475

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The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal #549

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