For the Lord's Supper

Top Text Author Text Info Timeline Page Scans Instances

Lord, send thy Spirit down On babes that long to learn

Representative Text

1 Lord, send thy Spirit down
On babes that long to learn;
Open our eyes, and make us wise,
Thy body to discern.

2 ’Tis by thy word we live,
And not by bread alone;
The word of truth from thy blest mouth,
O make it clearly known.

3 With what we have received
Impart thy quickening power;
We would be fed with living bread,
And live for evermore.

Source: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #825

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: J. Hart

Hart, Joseph, was born in London in 1712. His early life is involved in obscurity. His education was fairly good; and from the testimony of his brother-in-law, and successor in the ministry in Jewin Street, the Rev. John Hughes, "his civil calling was" for some time "that of a teacher of the learned languages." His early life, according to his own Experience which he prefaced to his Hymns, was a curious mixture of loose conduct, serious conviction of sin, and endeavours after amendment of life, and not until Whitsuntide, 1757, did he realize a permanent change, which was brought about mainly through his attending divine service at the Moravian Chapel, in Fetter Lane, London, and hearing a sermon on Rev. iii. 10. During the next two years ma… Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	Lord, send thy Spirit down On babes that long to learn
Title:	For the Lord's Supper
Author:	J. Hart
Meter:	6.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain