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Dearest Savior, help Thy servant

Author: Augustus Toplady
Tune: MERLO
Published in 31 hymnals

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1 Dearest Saviour, help Thy servant
To proclaim Thy wondrous love!
Pour Thy grace upon this people,
That they may Thy love approve:
Bless, oh, bless them,
From Thy shining courts above.

2 Now Thy gracious word invites them
To partake the gospel-feast;
Let Thy Spirit sweetly draw them;
Ev'ry soul be Jesus' guest!
Oh, receive us,
Let us find Thy promised rest.

Source: Book of Worship (Rev. ed.) #31

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Author: Augustus Toplady

Toplady, Augustus Montague, the author of "Rock of Ages," was born at Farnham, Surrey, November 4, 1740. His father was an officer in the British army. His mother was a woman of remarkable piety. He prepared for the university at Westminster School, and subsequently was graduated at Trinity College, Dublin. While on a visit in Ireland in his sixteenth year he was awakened and converted at a service held in a barn in Codymain. The text was Ephesians ii. 13: "But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." The preacher was an illiterate but warm-hearted layman named Morris. Concerning this experience Toplady wrote: "Strange that I, who had so long sat under the means of grace in England, should b… Go to person page >

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