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COMMUNION

Appears in 3 hymnals Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 51113 27123 33542 Used With Text: COMMUNION

Hail, sov'reign love, that form'd the plan

Appears in 222 hymnals Used With Tune: THE HIDING PLACE

Appears in 101 hymnals First Line: Oh that I could for ever dwell Lyrics: 1 Oh that I could for ever dwell With Mary at the Saviour's feet; And view the form I love so well, And all his tender words repeat, And all his tender words repeat. 2 The world shut out from all my soul, And heaven brought in with all its bliss; Oh, is there ought from pole to pole, One moment to compare with this? 3 This is the hidden life and prize, A life of penitential love, When most my follies I despise, And raise my highest thoughts above. 4 Thus would I live, till nature fail, And all my former sins forsake; Then rise to God within the veil, And of eternal joys partake. Used With Tune: COMMUNION

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A hiding place

Author: Brewer Hymnal: Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #638 (1875) First Line: Hail, sovereign love, that formed the plan Topics: Access to God; Atonement Completed; Christ Hiding-Place; Christ Refuge; Grace; Way of Salvation Scripture: Psalm 32:7 Tune Title: HIDING PLACE

Hail, sov'reign love, that form'd the plan

Hymnal: Spiritual Songs for Social Worship #259 (1834) Tune Title: THE HIDING PLACE

COMMUNION

Hymnal: The Minstrel of Zion #187 (1845) First Line: Oh that I could for ever dwell Lyrics: 1 Oh that I could for ever dwell With Mary at the Saviour's feet; And view the form I love so well, And all his tender words repeat, And all his tender words repeat. 2 The world shut out from all my soul, And heaven brought in with all its bliss; Oh, is there ought from pole to pole, One moment to compare with this? 3 This is the hidden life and prize, A life of penitential love, When most my follies I despise, And raise my highest thoughts above. 4 Thus would I live, till nature fail, And all my former sins forsake; Then rise to God within the veil, And of eternal joys partake. Tune Title: COMMUNION

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J. Brewer

1752 - 1817 Person Name: Brewer Author of "A hiding place" in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs Brewer, Jehoiada, the "Sylvestris" of the Gospel Magazine, 1776, &c, was born at Newport, Monmouthshire, in 1752. He was educated for commercial pursuits, but subsequently became a Congregational Minister, and as such was pastor at Rodborough, Gloucestershire; at Sheffield, to which he went in 1783; at Carr's Lane Chapel, Birmingham (1798); and at the Livery Street Chapel, in the same town. He died Aug. 24, 1817. A Memoir of him appeared in the Evangelical Register, 1835, p. 396. His best-known hymn is—"Hail, Sovereign Love, that first began" (q. v.). -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)