It Is Good To Be Here

Let me dwell on Golgotha

Author: John Newton
Tune: CALVARY (Monk)
Published in 39 hymnals

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1 Let me dwell on Golgotha,
Weep and love my life away!
While I see him on the tree,
Weep, and bleed, and die for me!

2 That dear blood for sinners spilt,
Shews my sin in all its guilt;
Ah, my soul, he bore the load,
Thou hast slain the Lamb of God.

3 Hark! his dying word,"Forgive,
Father, let the sinner live:
Sinner wipe thy tears away,
I thy ransom freely pay."

4 While I hear this grace revealed;
And obtain a pardon sealed,
All my soft affections move,
Wakened by the force of love.

5 Farewell, world, thy gold is dross;
Now I see the bleeding cross;
Jesus died to set me free
From the law, and sin and thee!

6 He has dearly bought my soul,
Lord, accept and claim the whole!
To thy will I all resign,
Now, no more my own, but thine.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the use of Christians, 1803

Author: John Newton

John Newton (b. London, England, 1725; d. London, 1807) was born into a Christian home, but his godly mother died when he was seven, and he joined his father at sea when he was eleven. His licentious and tumul­tuous sailing life included a flogging for attempted desertion from the Royal Navy and captivity by a slave trader in West Africa. After his escape he himself became the captain of a slave ship. Several factors contributed to Newton's conversion: a near-drowning in 1748, the piety of his friend Mary Catlett, (whom he married in 1750), and his reading of Thomas à Kempis' Imitation of Christ. In 1754 he gave up the slave trade and, in association with William Wilberforce, eventually became an ardent abolitionist. After becoming a tide… Go to person page >

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First Line: Let me dwell on Golgotha
Title: It Is Good To Be Here
Author: John Newton
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances (1 - 39 of 39)

A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in America #d204

A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Protestant Church of the United Brethren. Rev. ed. #d378

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A Hymn and Prayer-Book #40

A Selection of Hymns #d162

A Selection of Hymns, from Various Authors #d208

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Baptist Hymn Book #aB34

Church Music, a Collection of Hymn Tunes. #d82

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Dupuy's Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Rev. corr. and enl.) #S108

Family Hymns #d132

Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the use of Christians. 9th ed. #d101

Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Use of Christians #d76

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Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the use of Christians #67

Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Use of Christians. 8th ed. #d98

Hymns and Spiritual Songs, for the Use of Christians #d55

Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Selected and Original. 7th ed. #d250

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Hymns for Social Worship #42

Hymns for the Use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Impr. ed. #d270

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Offices of Worship and Hymns #52

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Select Hymns, The Third Part of Christian Psalmody. 3rd ed. #aa174

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Select Hymns #174

The African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymn Book #d244

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The Baptist Hymn Book #B34

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The Cyber Hymnal #3859

The Dover Selection of Spiritual Songs #d145

The Dover Selection of Spiritual Songs, with an Appendix of Choice Hymns #d140

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The Liturgy and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum #134

The Primitive Hymns #d326

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The Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D. D. #D174

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The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book #261c

The Sabbath Hymn Book. Baptist ed. #d553

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The Vestry Singing Book #171a

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The Virginia Selection of Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #176

Virginia Selection of Psalms #d267

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