The Vows of God Are On You

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The vows of God are on you

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Tune: [The vows of God are on you]
Published in 6 hymnals

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1 The vows of God are on you,
Ye Christian youth, arise;
The blood of Christ has won you
Your heritage, the skies.
Rise up, cast off your fetters;
Born of celestial birth,
Ye are no longer debtors
To live alone for earth.

Refrain:
The vows of God are on you,
O Christian youth, arise;
The blood of Christ has won you
A home beyond the skies.

2 It is no idle story,
It is no dream of night,
Redeem’d in Christ to glory,
Ye children of the light.
The vows of God are on you;
Rise up, and make them good;
He will at last enthrone you,
In death for you He stood. [Refrain]

3 Then ev’ry fetter sunder,
Aside lay every chain,
And dream no more, nor wander,
Your calling high attain.
He sets a prize before you,
Who won the prize before;
His blessed banner o’er you,
Shall float for evermore. [Refrain]

4 With sin, then, do not dally,
With flow’rs do not delay,
But round Christ’s standard rally,
As children of the day.
Rise up, no wish reserving,
Lay every weight aside;
With joy your Master serving,
For you He bled and died. [Refrain]

Source: Triumphant Songs No.4 #128

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Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin

Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book,… Go to person page >

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First Line:	The vows of God are on you
Title:	The Vows of God Are On You
Author:	Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	The vows of God are on you
Copyright:	Public Domain