He Frankly Forgave Them Both

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Mercy is welcome news indeed

Author: J. Hart
Tune: THE GREEN HILL (Stebbins)
Published in 22 hymnals

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1. Mercy is welcome news indeed,
To those who guilty stand.
Wretches who feel what Help they need,
Will bless the helping hand.
Who rightly would their alms dispose,
Should give them to the Poor.
None but the wounded patient knows
The comforts of the cure.

2. We all have sinned against our GOD:
Exception none can boast;
But those who feels the heaviest load
Will prize forgiveness most.
No Reck'ning can we rightly keep;
For who the sums can know?
Some souls are fifty pieces deep;
And some five hundred owe.

3. 'Tis perfect poverty alone
That sets the soul at large;
While we can call one mite our own,
We have no full discharge.
So let out debts be what they may,
However great or small;
As soon as we have nought to pay,
Our Lord forgives us all.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #199

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Author: J. Hart

Hart, Joseph, was born in London in 1712. His early life is involved in obscurity. His education was fairly good; and from the testimony of his brother-in-law, and successor in the ministry in Jewin Street, the Rev. John Hughes, "his civil calling was" for some time "that of a teacher of the learned languages." His early life, according to his own Experience which he prefaced to his Hymns, was a curious mixture of loose conduct, serious conviction of sin, and endeavours after amendment of life, and not until Whitsuntide, 1757, did he realize a permanent change, which was brought about mainly through his attending divine service at the Moravian Chapel, in Fetter Lane, London, and hearing a sermon on Rev. iii. 10. During the next two years ma… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Mercy is welcome news indeed
Title:	He Frankly Forgave Them Both
Author:	J. Hart
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Luke 7:41-42
(hymns)

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THE GREEN HILL (Stebbins)

George Coles Stebbins (b. East Carlton, NY, 1846; d. Catskill, NY, 1945) composed THE GREEN HILL in 1877 to accompany Cecil F. Alexander's hymn “There Is a Green Hill Far Away.” The tune was published in Gospel Hymns No.3 (1878). The slow harmonic rhythm and mostly stepwise melody build to a cli…

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