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Master Builder
Author: James Relly Meter: Irregular Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Ye are God's building, is the word Lyrics: 1 Ye are God's building, is the word,
Rais'd for the glory of the Lord,
Where he delights to dwell:
In Jesus, rais'd by his own hand,
This building ever shall withstand
The hostile gates of hell.
2 As skilful builders always care
Proper materials to prepare,
Needful for strength and grace;
So did he choose us in our head,
Ere time commenc'd, or worlds were made,
To build his dwelling place.
3 Such no untemper'd mortar use,
But justly will the same refuse
For what's more excellent;
All human daubings God despis'd;
When he his noble building rais'd,
Christ was the strong cement.
4 Would you the stately pile survey,
Its beauty, strength and harmony?
Then Christ Immanuel see!
Where all perfections in him meet,
There is the building seen complete,
The sum of all is He.
Topics: Attributes, Characters, Names, and Offices of Christ, from the New Testament Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:9
Master Builder
Ye are God's Building, (is the Word)
Hymnal: Christian Hymns, Poems, and Spiritual Songs #I.LXXVI (1776) Lyrics: 1 Ye are God's Building, (is the Word)
Rais'd for the Glory of the Lord,
Where he delights to dwell:
In Jesus, rais'd by his own Hand,
This building ever shall withstand
The hostile Gates of Hell.
2 As skilful Builders always care
Proper Materials to prepare,
Needful for Strength and Grace;
So did he choose us in our Head,
Ere Time commenc'd, or Worlds were made,
To build his Dwelling-Place.
3 Such no untemper'd Mortar use,
But justly will the same refuse
For what's more excellent;
All human Daubings God despis'd;
When he his noble Building rais'd,
Christ was the strong Cement.
4 Would you the stately Pile survey,
Its Beauty, Strength and Harmony?
Then Christ Immanuel see!
Where all Perfections in him meet,
There is the Building seen complete,
The Sum of all is He. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:9 Languages: English
Ye are God's Building, (is the Word)
Master Builder
Author: James Relly Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #CCXXXI (1792) Meter: Irregular First Line: Ye are God's building, is the word Lyrics: 1 Ye are God's building, is the word,
Rais'd for the glory of the Lord,
Where he delights to dwell:
In Jesus, rais'd by his own hand,
This building ever shall withstand
The hostile gates of hell.
2 As skilful builders always care
Proper materials to prepare,
Needful for strength and grace;
So did he choose us in our head,
Ere time commenc'd, or worlds were made,
To build his dwelling place.
3 Such no untemper'd mortar use,
But justly will the same refuse
For what's more excellent;
All human daubings God despis'd;
When he his noble building rais'd,
Christ was the strong cement.
4 Would you the stately pile survey,
Its beauty, strength and harmony?
Then Christ Immanuel see!
Where all perfections in him meet,
There is the building seen complete,
The sum of all is He.
Topics: Attributes, Characters, Names, and Offices of Christ, from the New Testament Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:9 Languages: English
Master Builder
James Relly
1722 - 1778 Author of "Master Builder" 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 Church of America. Relly along with his brother John wrote Christian Hymns, Poems and Spiritual Songs in 1758, which John Murray had republished in America in 1776.
Dianne Shapiro; from an article by Alexander Gordon in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, vol. 48; Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography; and Disoriented. Reoriented. blog (https://disorientedtheology.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/all-shall-be-well-chapter-6-james-relly/)
James Relly
