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My God, I love Thee – not because
Author: Francis Xavier, c. 1506-52; Edward Caswall, 1814-78 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 208 hymnals Topics: The Lord Jesus Christ His Sufferings and Death; The Christian Life Love and Communion Used With Tune: CULROSS
My God, I love Thee – not because
Ungrateful sinners! whence this scorn
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 17 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Ungrateful sinners! whence this scorn
Of God’s long-suff’ring grace?
and whence this madness that insults
th’ Almighty to his face?
2 Is it because his patience waits,
and pitying bowels move,
you multiply transgressions more,
and scorn his offer'd love?
3 Dost thou not know, self-blinded man!
his goodness is design'd
to wake repentance in thy soul,
and melt thy harden'd mind?
4 And wilt thou rather chuse to meet
th’ Almighty as thy foe,
and treasure up his wrath in store
against the day of woe?
5 Soon shall that fatal day approach
that must thy sentence seal,
and righteous judgments, now unknown,
in awful pomp reveal;
6 while they, who full of holy deeds
to glory seek to rise,
continuing patient to the end,
shall gain th’ immortal prize.
Scripture: Romans 2:4-8 Used With Tune: CULROSS
Ungrateful sinners! whence this scorn
Hear thou my prayer, O God, hide not
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Hear thou my prayer, O God, hide not
from my entreating voice:
2 attend and hear me, in my plaint
I mourn and make a noise;
3 for voice of enemies, and for
vile men’s oppression great:
on me they cast iniquity,
and they in wrath me hate.
4 Sore pained within me is my heart:
death’s terrors on me fall.
5 On me comes trembling, fear and dread
me overwhelmed withal.
6 O that I like a dove had wings,
said I, then would I flee
far hence, that I might find a place
where I in rest might be.
7 Lo, then far off I wander would,
and in the desert stay;
8 from stormy wind and tempest I
would haste to ‘scape away.
9 O Lord, on them destruction bring,
do thou their tongues divide;
for in the city violence
and strife have I descried.
10 They day and night upon the walls
do compass it around:
there mischief is, and sorrow there
in midst of it is found.
11 Abundant wickedness there is
within its inward part;
and from its streets deceitfulness
and guile do not depart.
12 He was no foe that me reproached,
for that I could abide;
no hater that against me rose,
else I from him might hide.
13 'Twas thou, a man, mine equal, guide,
who mine acquaintance wast:
14 we joined sweet counsels: to God’s house
amidst the throng we passed.
15 Let death them seize, and to the grave
alive let them depart;
for wickedness is in their house
and evil in their heart.
16 I call on God; the Lord me saves.
17 I make my plaint and sigh
at evening, morning, and at noon;
and he regards my cry.
18 He hath my soul delivered,
that it in peace might be
from battle that against me was;
for many were with me.
19 The Lord shall hear and them afflict
(of old abideth he),
even them who have no fear of God,
and changes never see.
20 ’Gainst those that were at peace with him
he hath put forth his hand:
the covenant that he had made,
by breaking he profaned.
21 More smooth than butter were his words,
while in his heart was war:
his speeches were more soft than oil,
and yet drawn swords they are.
22 Cast thou thy burden on the Lord,
and he shall thee sustain;
yea, he shall cause the righteous man
unmoved to remain.
23 But thou, O God, in judgment just
those men shalt overthrow,
and in destruction’s dungeon dark
at last shalt lay them low;
The bloody and deceitful men
shall not live half their days:
but upon thee with confidence
I will depend always. Scripture: Psalm 55 Used With Tune: CULROSS
Hear thou my prayer, O God, hide not
Ungrateful sinners! whence this scorn
Hymnal: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #R45 (2004) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Ungrateful sinners! whence this scorn
Of God’s long-suff’ring grace?
and whence this madness that insults
th’ Almighty to his face?
2 Is it because his patience waits,
and pitying bowels move,
you multiply transgressions more,
and scorn his offer'd love?
3 Dost thou not know, self-blinded man!
his goodness is design'd
to wake repentance in thy soul,
and melt thy harden'd mind?
4 And wilt thou rather chuse to meet
th’ Almighty as thy foe,
and treasure up his wrath in store
against the day of woe?
5 Soon shall that fatal day approach
that must thy sentence seal,
and righteous judgments, now unknown,
in awful pomp reveal;
6 while they, who full of holy deeds
to glory seek to rise,
continuing patient to the end,
shall gain th’ immortal prize.
Scripture: Romans 2:4-8 Languages: English Tune Title: CULROSS
Ungrateful sinners! whence this scorn
How are Thy servants blest, O Lord
Author: J. Addison, 1672-1719 Hymnal: Hymns and Chorales #34 (1892) Languages: English Tune Title: CULROSS
How are Thy servants blest, O Lord
Plead, Lord, with those that plead and fight
Hymnal: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #P35 (2004) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Plead, Lord, with those that plead; and fight
with those that fight with me.
2 Of shield and buckler take thou hold,
stand up mine help to be.
3 Draw also out the spear, and stop
my persecutors' way,
and in thy mercy, to my soul,
I’m thy salvation, say.
4 Let them confounded be and shamed
that for my soul have sought:
who plot my hurt turned back be they,
and to confusion brought.
5 Let them be like unto the chaff
that flies before the wind;
and let the angel of the Lord
pursue them hard behind.
6 With darkness cover thou their way,
and let it slippery prove;
and let the angel of the Lord
pursue them from above.
7 For without cause have they for me
their secret hid their snare;
and they a pit without a cause
did for my soul prepare.
8 Let ruin seize him unawares;
his net he hid withal
himself let catch; and in the same
destruction let him fall.
9 My soul in God shall joy, and glad
in his salvation be:
10 and all my bones shall say, O Lord,
Who is like unto thee,
Who dost the poor set free from him
that is for him too strong;
the poor and needy from the man
that spoils and does him wrong?
11 False witnesses rose; 'gainst me
things that I not knew not laid:
12 they to the spoiling of my soul
me ill for good repaid.
13 But as for me, when they were sick,
in sackcloth sad I mourned;
my humbled soul did fast, my prayer
into my bosom turned.
14 I bore myself as for a friend,
or brother dear to me;
as one who for a mother mourns,
I bowed down heavily.
15 But in my trouble they rejoiced,
and they together met;
the abjects vile together did
themselves against me set.
I knew it not; they did me tear,
and quiet would not be.
16 with mocking hypocrites at feasts
they gnashed their teeth at me.
17 How long, Lord, look’st thou on? from those
destructions they intend
rescue my soul, from lions young
my darling do defend.
18 I will give thanks to thee, O Lord,
within the assembly great;
and where much people gathered are
thy praises forth will set.
19 Let not my wrongful enemies
proudly rejoice o’er me;
nor let them wink with scornful eye,
who hate me causelessly.
20 For peace they do not speak at all:
but crafty plots prepare
against all those within the land
that meek and quiet are.
21 Their mouths they open wide at me,
they say, Ha, ha! we see:
22 Lord, thou hast seen, hold not thy peace;
Lord, be not far from me.
23 Stir up thyself; wake, that thou may’st
judgment to me afford,
even to my cause, O thou that art
my only God and Lord.
24 O Lord my God, do thou me judge
after thy righteousness;
and let them not their joy ‘oer me
triumphantly express:
25 nor let them say within their hearts,
Ah, we would have it thus;
nor suffer them to say, Lo, he
is swallowed up by us.
26 Shamed and confounded be they all
that at my hurt are glad;
let those against me that do boast
with shame and scorn be clad.
27 Let them who love my righteous cause
with gladness shout, nor cease
to say, The Lord be magnified,
who loves his servant’s peace.
28 Thy righteousness shall also be
declared by my tongue;
the praises that belong to thee
speak shall it all day long. Scripture: Psalm 35 Languages: English Tune Title: CULROSS
Plead, Lord, with those that plead and fight
Christopher Webber
b. 1932 Person Name: Christopher L. Webber Author of "Fret Not for Those Who Do Wrong Things" in The Presbyterian Hymnal CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE WEBBER was born 5 January 1932 in Cuba, New York, son of the Rev. Roy Lawrence Webber and Hortense Marie Basquin. He graduated from South Kent School (South Kent, CT) in 1949, Princeton University in 1953, and General Theological Seminary (NYC) in 1956. He is the author of A New Metrical Psalter (1986), Hymns from the Bible (2000), and Songs of Justice, Peace, and Love: The Sharon Hymnal (2022).
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Christopher Webber
Joseph Addison
1672 - 1719 Person Name: J. Addison, 1672-1719 Author of "How are Thy servants blest, O Lord" in Hymns and Chorales Addison, Joseph, born at Milston, near Amesbury, Wiltshire, May 1, 1672, was the son of the Rev. Lancelot Addison, sometime Dean of Lichfield, and author of Devotional Poems, &c, 1699. Addison was educated at the Charterhouse, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating B.A. 1691 and M.A. 1693. Although intended for the Church, he gave himself to the study of law and politics, and soon attained, through powerful influence, to some important posts. He was successively a Commissioner of Appeals, an Under Secretary of State, Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Chief Secretary for Ireland. He married, in 1716, the Dowager Countess of Warwick, and died at Holland House, Kensington, June 17, 1719. Addison is most widely known through his contributions to The Spectator, The Toiler, The Guardian, and The Freeholder. To the first of these he contributed his hymns. His Cato, a tragedy, is well known and highly esteemed. Addison's claims to the authorship of the hymns usually ascribed to him, or to certain of them, have been called in question on two occasions. The first was the publication, by Captain Thompson, of certain of those hymns in his edition of the Works of Andrew Marvell, 1776, as the undoubted compositions of Marvell; and the second, a claim in the Athenaeum, July 10th, 1880, on behalf of the Rev. Richard Richmond. Fully to elucidate the subject it will be necessary, therefore, to give a chronological history of the hymns as they appeared in the Spectator from time to time.
i. The History of the Hymns in The Spectator. This, as furnished in successive numbers of the Spectator is :—
1. The first of these hymns appeared in the Spectator of Saturday, July 26, 1712, No. 441, in 4 stanzas of 6 lines. The article in which it appeared was on Divine Providence, signed “C." The hymn itself, "The Lord my pasture shall prepare," was introduced with these words:—
"David has very beautifully represented this steady reliance on God Almighty in his twenty-third psalm, which is a kind of pastoral hymn, and filled with those allusions which are usual in that kind of writing As the poetry is very exquisite, I shall present my readers with the following translation of it." (Orig. Broadsheet, Brit. Mus.)
2. The second hymn appeared in the Spectator on Saturday, Aug. 9, 1712, No. 453, in 13 st. of 4 1., and forms the conclusion of an essay on " Gratitude." It is also signed " C," and is thus introduced:—
“I have already obliged the public with some pieces of divine poetry which have fallen into my hands, and as they have met with the reception which they deserve, I shall, from time to time, communicate any work of the same nature which has not appeared in print, and may be acceptable to my readers." (Orig. Broadsheet, British Museum)
Then follows the hymn:—"When all Thy mercies, 0 my God."
3. The number of the Spectator for Tuesday, Aug. 19, 1712, No. 461, is composed of three parts. The first is an introductory paragraph by Addison, the second, an unsigned letter from Isaac Watts, together with a rendering by him of Ps. 114th; and the third, a letter from Steele. It is with the first two we have to deal. The opening paragraph by Addison is:—
“For want of time to substitute something else in the Boom of them, I am at present obliged to publish Compliments above my Desert in the following Letters. It is no small Satisfaction, to have given Occasion to ingenious Men to employ their Thoughts upon sacred Subjects from the Approbation of such Pieces of Poetry as they have seen in my Saturday's papers. I shall never publish Verse on that Day but what is written by the same Hand; yet shall I not accompany those Writings with Eulogiums, but leave them to speak for themselves." (Orig. Broadsheet, British Museum
Joseph Addison
Edward Caswall
1814 - 1878 Person Name: Edward Caswall, 1814-78 Translator of "My God, I love Thee – not because" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Edward Caswall was born in 1814, at Yately, in Hampshire, where his father was a clergyman. In 1832, he went to Brasenose College, Oxford, and in 1836, took a second-class in classics. His humorous work, "The Art of Pluck," was published in 1835; it is still selling at Oxford, having passed through many editions. In 1838, he was ordained Deacon, and in 1839, Priest. He became perpetural Curate of Stratford-sub-Castle in 1840. In 1841, he resigned his incumbency and visited Ireland. In 1847, he joined the Church of Rome. In 1850, he was admitted into the Congregation of the Oratory at Birmingham, where he has since remained. He has published several works in prose and poetry.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872
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Caswall, Edward, M.A., son of the Rev. R. C. Caswall, sometime Vicar of Yately, Hampshire, born at Yately, July 15, 1814, and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating in honours in 1836. Taking Holy Orders in 1838, he became in 1840 Incumbent of Stratford-sub-Castle, near Salisbury, and resigned the same in 1847. In 1850 (Mrs. Caswall having died in 1849) he was received into the Roman Catholic communion, and joined Dr. Newman at the Oratory, Edgbaston. His life thenceforth, although void of stirring incidents, was marked by earnest devotion to his clerical duties and a loving interest in the poor, the sick, and in little children. His original poems and hymns were mostly written at the Oratory. He died at Edgbaston, Jan. 2, 1878, and was buried on Jan. 7 at Redwall, near Bromsgrove, by his leader and friend Cardinal Newman. Caswall's translations of Latin hymns from the Roman Breviary and other sources have a wider circulation in modern hymnals than those of any other translator, Dr. Neale alone excepted. This is owing to his general faithfulness to the originals, and the purity of his rhythm, the latter feature specially adapting his hymns to music, and for congregational purposes. His original compositions, although marked by considerable poetical ability, are not extensive in their use, their doctrinal teaching being against their general adoption outside the Roman communion. His hymns appeared in:—
(1) Lyra Catholica, which contained 197 translations from the Roman Breviary, Missal, and other sources. First ed. London, James Burns, 1849. This was reprinted in New York in 1851, with several hymns from other sources added thereto. This edition is quoted in the indices to some American hymn-books as Lyra Cath., as in Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, and others.
(2) Masque of Mary, and Other Poems, having in addition to the opening poem and a few miscellaneous pieces, 53 translations, and 51 hymns. 1st ed. Lon., Burns and Lambert, 1858.
(3) A May Pageant and Other Poems, including 10 original hymns. Lon., Burns and Lambert, 1865.
(4) Hymns and Poems, being the three preceding volumes embodied in one, with many of the hymns rewritten or revised, together with elaborate indices. 1st ed. Lon., Burns, Oates & Co., 1873. Of his original hymns about 20 are given in the Roman Catholic Crown of Jesus Hymn Book, N.D; there are also several in the Hymns for the Year, N.D., and other Roman Catholic collections.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Caswall, E. , p. 214, ii. Additional original hymns by Caswall are in the Arundel Hymns, 1902, and other collections. The following are from the Masque of Mary, &c, 1858:—
1. Christian soul, dost thou desire. After Holy Communion.
2. Come, let me for a moment cast. Holy Communion.
3. O Jesu Christ [Lord], remember. Holy Communion.
4. Oft, my soul, thyself remind. Man's Chief End.
5. Sleep, Holy Babe. Christmas. Appeared in the Rambler, June 1850, p. 528. Sometimes given as "Sleep, Jesus, sleep."
6. The glory of summer. Autumn.
7. This is the image of the queen. B. V. M.
His "See! amid the winter's snow,” p. 1037, i., was published in Easy Hymn Tunes, 1851, p. 36. In addition the following, mainly altered texts or centos of his translations are also in common use:—
1. A regal throne, for Christ's dear sake. From "Riches and regal throne," p. 870, ii.
2. Come, Holy Ghost, Thy grace inspire. From "Spirit of grace and union," p. 945, i.
3. Hail! ocean star, p. 99, ii,, as 1873. In the Birmingham Oratory Hymn Book, 1850, p. 158.
4. Lovely flow'rs of martyrs, hail. This is the 1849 text. His 1873 text is "Flowers of martyrdom," p. 947, i.
5. None of all the noble cities. From "Bethlehem! of noblest cities," p. 946, ii.
6. O Jesu, Saviour of the World. From “Jesu, Redeemer of the world," p. 228, ii.
7. 0 Lady, high in glory raised. From "O Lady, high in glory, Whose," p. 945, i.
The Parochial Hymn Book, 1880, has also the following original hymns by Caswall. As their use is confined to this collection, we give the numbers only:—
IS os. 1, 2, 3, 159 (Poems, 1873, p. 453), 209 (1873, p. 288), 299, 324 (1873, p. 323), 357, 402, 554, 555, 558, 569 (1873, p. 334). These are from his Masque of Mary 1858. Nos. 156, 207 (1873, p. 296), 208 (1873, p. 297), 518. These are from his May Pageant, 1865.
As several of these hymns do not begin with the original first lines, the original texts are indicated as found in his Poems, 1873. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Edward Caswall
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Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
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