Glory to God, and praise, and love

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General information

This is an hymn by Charles Wesley, 1740, from Hymns and Sacred Poems, Hymn 68, p. 120, with eighteen stanzas. The seventh stanza begins the famous hymn, O for a thousand tongues to sing. Meter is 86. 86 (C.M.)

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1. Glory to God, and praise, and love
Be ever, ever given;
By saints below, and saints above,
The church in earth and heaven.

2. On this glad day the glorious sun
Of righteousness arose,
On my benighted soul he shone,
And filled it with repose.

3. Sudden expired the legal strife,
’Twas then I ceased to grieve,
My second, real, living life
I then began to live

4. Then with my heart I first believed,
Believed, with faith divine,
Power with the Holy Ghost received
To call the Savior mine.

5. I felt my Lord’s atoning blood
Close to my soul applied;
Me, me he loved — the Son of God
For me, for me he died!

 

6. I found, and owned his promise true,
Ascertained of my part,
My pardon passed in heaven I knew
When written on my heart.

7. O for a thousand tongues to sing
My dear Redeemer’s praise!
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of his grace.

8. My gracious Master, and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad
The honors of thy name.

9. Jesus the name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease;
Tis music in the sinner’s ears,
Tis life, and health, and peace!

10. He breaks the power of cancelled sin,
He sets the prisoner free:
His blood can make the foulest clean;
His blood availed for me.

 

11 He speaks; and listening to his voice,
New life the dead receive,
The mournful, broken hearts rejoice,
The humble poor believe.

12. Hear him ye deaf, his praise ye dumb
Your loosened tongues employ,
Ye blind, behold your Savior come,
And leap, ye lame, for joy.

13. Look unto him, ye nations, own
Your God, ye fallen race!
Look, and be saved, through faith alone;
Be justified, by grace!

14. See all your sins on Jesus laid;
The Lamb of God was slain,
His soul was once an offering made
For every soul of man.

15 Harlots, and publicans, and thieves
In holy triumph join!
Saved is the sinner that believes
From crimes as great as mine.

 

16 Murderers, and all ye hellish crew,
Ye sons of lust and pride,
Believe the Savior died for you;
For me the Savior died.

17. Awake from guilty nature’s sleep,
And Christ shall give you light,
Cast all your sins into the deep,
And wash the Ethiop white.

18. With me, your chief, you then shall know,
Shall feel your sins forgiven;
Anticipate your heaven below,
And own, that love is heaven.

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