Be Perfect

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Be perfect, O believing one

Author: Charles Price Jones
Tune: PERFECTION
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Be perfect, O believing one,
For so Thy Lord commands,
And when thou bowest at His throne
Lift to Him holy hands.

2 God will unto His saints speak peace,
But let them nevermore,
To folly turn, but seek for grace
To make salvation sure.

3 Be perfect and the Saviour seek
With all thy heart and mind,
Be full of love, obedient, meek,
Long suffering and kind.

4 Be perfect, trusting grace complete,
A perfect Saviour claim;
Live daily at the mercy seat
And conquer in His name.

5 Be perfect, O believing one,
Live with the single eye,
And when thy work on earth is done
There's rest for thee on high.

Source: His Fullness Songs #435

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Author: Charles Price Jones

Charles Price Jones born December 9, 1865, near Rome, Georgia. He grew up in Kingston, Georgia, and attended the Baptist church. He was converted in 1884 while living in Cat Island, Arkansas. In 1885 he was called to the ministry and began preaching. In 1888 he attended Arkansas Baptist College and taught school in Grant County, Arkansas. He preached and pastored several Baptist churches. After asking God for a deeper experience of grace and fasting and praying for three days, Jones experienced a closeness with God, and in 1895, along with other Baptist holiness adherents, who taught that a second work of grace can cleanse the Christian of original sin. They started a holiness movement in the Baptist church, and he began teaching holiness i… Go to person page >

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