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��oua HYMNS :
��writing, and soon after became minister of Jcwin Street Indepen dent Chapel. He died May 24th, 1768. The first edition of his " Hymns composed on various subjects," bears date 1759; the second edition, with a large supplement, 1762 : many other editions have been published.
" Come, Holy Spirit, come." No. 435.
The original piece contains four more verses. It was probably suggested by the old Latin hymn " Yeni Sancti Spiritus."
" Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched." No. 511.
In Hart s collection this is headed, " Come and welcome to
Jesus."
" This God is the God we adore." No. 615.
This is the last verse of a piece of seven verses, beginning, " Xo prophet or dreamer of dreams," Hymn 73 in Hart s collection.
" Lord, look on all assembled here." No. 995.
This was written " for a Public Fast." Five verses are omitted in the "New Congregational Hymn Book; and verse 2, which is not in the original, gives the sense of the omitted verses. 794 and 849 are also by Hart.
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17131739.
" Holy Lamb, who Thee receive." No. 572.
THIS is pail of John Wesley s translation (1740) of a piece of ten stanzas, written by Anna Dober, in the year 1735. Her hymn is No. 1046 in the " German Hymn Book of 1735 ;" and "Wesley s translation is found on page 93 of his " Hymns and Sacred Poems," 1740. Wesley omitted stanzas 8 and 9, and his fifth and sixth are omitted in the "New Congregational" The hvmn was written to be sun at a children s school feast.
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