Christ our head's gone up on high, And we his body are

Christ our head's gone up on high, And we his body are

Author: James Relly
Published in 4 hymnals

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Christ, our Head's gone up on high,
And we his body are;
All our sorrows we'll lay by,
And each distracting care:
Tho' we Satan's darts may feel;
Yet he can never strike us dead:
He may bruise us on the heel,
But cannot reach our Head.

Source: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: selected and original, designed for the use of the Church Universal in public and private devotion #CLXIX

Author: James Relly

James Relly was born about 1722 at Jeffreston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, and died in 1778. He was converted to Christianity during the Great Awakening ushered in by George Whitefield. He worked under George Whitefield as a Calvinistic Methodist preacher and missionary. However, Whitefield and Relly separated ways over Relly's seemingly universalist teaching that all humanity was elect (i.e. saved) when Christ took the punishment for all sin when he died. He also departed from both the Calvinists and Methodists by taking the doctrine of Justification further, in teaching that believers no longer sin and the Law's sole purpose is to condemn humanity and point them to Christ. He was the mentor of John Murray, the founder of the Universalist Ch… Go to person page >

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First Line: Christ our head's gone up on high, And we his body are
Author: James Relly
Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.8.7.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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Christian Hymns, Poems, and Spiritual Songs #I.LXXXIII

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Evangelical Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #23

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Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #118

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Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #CLXIX

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