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While shepherds watched

Author: Nahum Tate Appears in 1,096 hymnals Matching Instances: 79 First Line: While shepherds watched their flocks by night Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD Text Sources: A Supplement to the New Version of the Psalms, 1700

When God of old came down from heaven

Author: John Keble (1792-1866) Appears in 113 hymnals Matching Instances: 21 Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD

When all Thy mercies, O my God

Author: Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 997 hymnals Matching Instances: 18 Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD

O for a thousand tongues to sing

Appears in 1,731 hymnals Matching Instances: 7 Used With Tune: WINCHESTER

God is our refuge and our strength

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 51 hymnals Matching Instances: 7 Topics: The Church of God The Communion of Saints; The Church of God The Reception of Members Scripture: Psalm 46 Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD Text Sources: Scottish Psalter, 1650

Come, Holy Ghost, Our Hearts Inspire

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 235 hymnals Matching Instances: 6 First Line: Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire (Wesley) Lyrics: 1. Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire, let us thine influence prove; source of the old prophetic fire, fountain of life and love. 2. Come, Holy Ghost (for moved by thee the prophets wrote and spoke), unlock the truth, thyself the key, unseal the sacred book. 3. Expand thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light. 4. God, through the Spirit we shall know if thou within us shine, and sound, with all thy saints below, the depths of love divine. Topics: The Power of the Holy Spirit In Praise of the Holy Spirit; The Book of the Church : Holy Scripture; Aldersgate; Christian Year Pentecost; Holy Spirit; Service Music Prayer for Illumination; Service Music Scripture Acclamations Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD

In Memory of the Savior's Love

Author: John J. Overholt; Thomas Cotterill (1779-1823); John J. Overholt Appears in 106 hymnals Matching Instances: 6 First Line: In mem'ry of the Savior's love Topics: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; Ordinances Communion Scripture: 1 John 3:16 Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD

How excellent in all the earth

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 14 hymnals Matching Instances: 5 Lyrics: 1 How excellent in all the earth, Lord, our Lord, is thy name! who hast thy glory far advanced above the starry frame. 2 When I look up unto the heavens, which thine own fingers framed, unto the moon, and to the stars, which were by thee ordained; 3 Then say I, What is man, that he remembered is by thee? Or what the son of man, that thou so kind to him should’st be? 4 For thou a little lower hast him than the angels made; With glory and with dignity thou crownèd hast his head. Topics: Adoration Of God; Angels; Creation Scripture: Psalm 8:1-5 Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD Text Sources: The Scottish Psalter, 1929