I love Thy kingdom, Lord

I love Thy kingdom, Lord

Alterer: Timothy Dwight (1800)
Tune: ST. THOMAS (Williams)
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1 I love Thy kingdom, Lord,
The house of Thine abode,
The Church our blest Redeemer saved
With His own precious blood.

2 For her my tears shall fall;
For her my prayers ascend;
To her my cares and toils be given,
Till toils and cares shall end.

3 Beyond my highest joy
I prize her heavenly ways,
Her sweet communion, solemn vows,
Her hymns of love and praise.

5 Jesus, Thou friend divine,
Our Savior and our King,
Thy hand from every snare and foe
Shall great deliverance bring.

6 Sure as Thy truth shall last,
To Zion shall be given
The brightest glories earth can yield,
And brighter bliss of heaven.

The Hymnal: revised and enlarged as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892

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Alterer: Timothy Dwight

Dwight, Timothy, D.D. This is the most important name in early American hymnology, as it is also one of the most illustrious in American literature and education. He was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, May 14, 1752, and graduated at Yale College, 1769; was a tutor there from 1771 to 1777. He then became for a short time a chaplain in the United States Army, but passed on in 1783 to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he held a pastorate, and taught in an Academy, till his appointment, in 1795, as President of Yale College. His works are well known, and need no enumeration. He died at New Haven, Jan. 11, 1817. In 1797 the General Association of Connecticut, being dissatisfied with Joel Barlow's 1785 revision of Watts, requested Dwight to do th… Go to person page >

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First Line: I love Thy kingdom, Lord
Alterer: Timothy Dwight (1800)
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Language: English
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ST. THOMAS (Williams)

ST. THOMAS is actually lines 5 through 8 of the sixteen-line tune HOLBORN, composed by Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) and published in his Collection (1763, 1765) as a setting for Charles Wesley's text "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" (570). The harmonization is by Lowell Maso…

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Baptist Hymnal 1991 #354
Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #510
Timeless Truths #725
The United Methodist Hymnal #540
Worship and Rejoice #549
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Baptist Hymnal 1991 #354TextImageAudioScore
Baptist Hymnal 2008 #383TextImage
Celebrating Grace Hymnal #262Image
Celebration Hymnal #405Image
Chalice Hymnal #274Text
Christian Worship: a Lutheran hymnal #533Text
Hymnal 1982: according to the use of the Episcopal Church #524TextImage
Hymns of Faith #73TextImage
Lutheran Service Book #651Text
Presbyterian Hymnal #441TextImage
Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #510TextImageAudioScore
Rejoice in the Lord #409Text
Revival Hymns and Choruses #262
Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #344
Sing Joyfully #135TextImage
The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration #280
The United Methodist Hymnal #540TextImageAudioScore
The Worshiping Church #702TextImage
Trinity Hymnal #353Text
Worship and Rejoice #549TextImageAudioScore
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