Sunday's Hymn: William Cowper

I’ll feature hymns by William Cowper for at least a couple more weeks, since the words of the hymns mean so much more while the circumstances of his life are fresh in my mind.  If you’ve missed the pieces about his life that I’ve posted here, you’ll find them at the references link below this post.

My Song Shall Bless the Lord of All

My song shall bless the Lord of all,
My praise shall climb to His abode;
Thee, Savior, by that name I call,
The great Supreme, the mighty God.

Without beginning, or decline,
Object of faith, and not of sense;
Eternal ages saw Him shine,
He shines eternal ages hence.

As much, when in the manger laid,
Almighty Ruler of the sky;
As when the six days’ works He made,
Filled all the morning-stars with joy.

Of all the crowns Jehovah bears,
Salvation is His dearest claim;
That gracious sound well-pleased He hears,
And owns Emmanuel for His name.

A cheerful confidence I feel,
My well-placed hopes with joy I see;
My bosom glows with heav’nly zeal
To worship Him Who died for me.

As man, He pities my complaint,
His pow’r and truth are all divine;
He will not fail, He cannot faint,
Salvation’s sure, and must be mine.

——Listen 

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Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• Wonderful Grace of Jesus at Above the Clouds
• Lord’s Day at Hiraeth
• Arise, My Soul, Arise at TulipGirl
• Hymn 10, S. M. from The Psalms & Hymns of Isaac Watts at The Thirsty Theologian. (Welcome back, David.)
• Safely Through Another Week at Challies.com
  
• I Would Be True at IMD 2.0.
• At Thy Feet, O Christ We Lay at John Dekker’s Journal
• Like A River Glorious at The Happy Wonderer
• Give Me A New, A Perfect Heart at Seasonings of the Heart
• Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness at joythruChrist
• The Collect for the Fourth Sunday after Easter at Magic Statistics

Have you posted a hymn this Sunday and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar, and I’ll add your post to the list.

Comments

[Martin LaBar]

That's a good one. Thanks.