Lord, My Strength

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Lord, my strength, to Thee I pray

Author: James Merrick (1765)
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 LORD, my strength, to Thee I pray;
Turn not Thou Thine ear away;
Gracious to my vows attend,
While the humble knee I bend.

2 On Thy long-experienced aid
See my hope for ever stay'd:
Thou my shield, my fortress are;
Thou the refuge of my heart.

3 Grant me, LORD, Thy love to share,
Feed me with a Shepherd's care;
Save Thy people from distress,
And Thy fold forever bless.

Source: Psalms of Grace #28c

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Author: James Merrick

Merrick, James , M.A., was born in 1720, and educated at Oxford, where he became a Fellow of Trinity College. He entered Holy Orders, but his health would not admit of parish work. He died at Reading, 1769. His publications include:— (1) Messiah, a Divine Essay. Humbly dedicated to the Reverend the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the Visitors of the Free School in Reading. By James Merrick, Ætat. 14, Senior Scholar of the School at their last Terminal Visitation, the 7th of October, 1734. Reading. (2) The Destruction of Troy. Translated from the Greek of Tryphiodorus into English Verse, with Notes, &c. 1742. (3) Poems on Sacred Subjects. Oxford . 1763. (4) The Psalms of David Translated or Paraphrased in English Verse… Go to person page >

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