All Praise to Our Redeeming Lord

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1 All praise to our redeeming Lord,
who joins us by his grace,
and bids us, each to each restored,
together seek his face.

2 He bids us build each other up;
and, gathered into one,
to our high calling’s glorious hope
we hand in hand go on.

3 The gift which he on one bestows,
we all delight to prove;
the grace through every vessel flows,
in purest streams of love.

4 Ev'n now we think and speak the same,
and cordially agree;
concentred all, through Jesus’ name,
in perfect harmony.

5 We all partake the joy of one,
the common peace we feel,
a peace to sensual minds unknown,
a joy unspeakable.

6 And if our fellowship below
in Jesus be so sweet,
what heights of rapture shall we know
when round his throne we meet!


Source: Common Praise: A new edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern #371a

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

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First Line: All praise to our redeeming Lord
Title: All Praise to Our Redeeming Lord
Author: Charles Wesley (1747)
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

All praise to our redeeming Lord. C. Wesley. [Christian Fellowship.] No. xxxii. of his Hymns for those that seek and those that have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ, 1747, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines and entitled, "At Meeting of Friends." It was not included in the Wesleyan Hymn Book until after the death of J. Wesley, and was added in one of the editions of that collection during its partial revision in 1800-1. It has become a favourite hymn amongst the Methodist bodies in all English-speaking countries, but its use, otherwise than by the Methodists, is limited. Original text in Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. iv. p. 252.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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