Christ's Commission

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Come, happy souls, approach your God

Author: Isaac Watts
Published in 169 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	Festival Hymns for Organ, Brass, and Tim…

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	ACCLAMATION ON "AZMON"

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	Worship the King

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1. Come, happy souls, approach your God
With new, melodious songs;
Come, tender to almighty grace
The tribute of your tongues.

2. So strange, so boundless was the love
The pitied the accursed,
The Father sent his equal Son
To give them second birth.

3. Your hands, dear Jesus, were not armed
With a revenging rod,
No hard commission to perform
The vengeance of a God.

4. But all was mercy, all was mild,
And wrath forsook the throne,
When Christ on the kind errand came
And brought salvation down.

5. Here, sinners, you may heal your wounds
And wipe your sorrows dry;
Trust in the mighty Savior’s name,
And you shall never die.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #93b

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Author: Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts was the son of a schoolmaster, and was born in Southampton, July 17, 1674. He is said to have shown remarkable precocity in childhood, beginning the study of Latin, in his fourth year, and writing respectable verses at the age of seven. At the age of sixteen, he went to London to study in the Academy of the Rev. Thomas Rowe, an Independent minister. In 1698, he became assistant minister of the Independent Church, Berry St., London. In 1702, he became pastor. In 1712, he accepted an invitation to visit Sir Thomas Abney, at his residence of Abney Park, and at Sir Thomas' pressing request, made it his home for the remainder of his life. It was a residence most favourable for his health, and for the prosecution of his literary… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Come, happy souls, approach your God
Title:	Christ's Commission
Author:	Isaac Watts
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

John 3:1-17
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MARLOW

HEBER (Kingsley)

RICHMOND (Haweis)

RICHMOND (also known as CHESTERFIELD) is a florid tune originally written by Thomas Haweis (PHH 270) and published in his collection Carmina Christo (1792). Samuel Webbe, Jr., adapted and shortened the tune and published it in his Collection of Psalm Tunes (1808). It was reprinted in 1853 in Webbe's…

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