Supreme Disposer of the heart

Supreme Disposer of the heart

Author: Charles Coffin
Published in 10 hymnals

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Supreme disposer of the heart!
Thou, since the world was made,
Hast the blest fruits of holiness
To holy hearts displayed.

Here, hope and faith their links unite
With love in one sweet chain;
But when all fleeting things are past,
Love shall alone remain.

O love! O true and fadeless light!
And shall it ever be,
That after all our toils and tears
Thy sabbath we shall see?

’Mid thousand fears and dangers now
We sow our seed, with prayer,
But know that joyful hands shall reap
The shining harvests there.

O God of justice, God of power!
Our faith and hope increase,
And crown them, in the future years,
With endless love and peace.



Source: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) #538

Author: Charles Coffin

Coffin, Charles, born at Buzaney (Ardennes) in 1676, died 1749, was principal of the college at Beauvais, 1712 (succeeding the historian Rollin), and rector of the University of Paris, 1718. He published in 1727 some, of his Latin poems, for which he was already noted, and in 1736 the bulk of his hymns appeared in the Paris Breviary of that year. In the same year he published them as Hymni Sacri Auctore Carolo Coffin, and in 1755 a complete ed. of his Works was issued in 2 vols. To his Hymni Sacri is prefixed an interesting preface. The whole plan of his hymns, and of the Paris Breviary which he so largely influenced, comes out in his words. "In his porro scribendis Hymnis non tam poetico indulgendunv spiritui, quam nitoro et pietate co… Go to person page >

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First Line: Supreme Disposer of the heart
Author: Charles Coffin
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A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) #538

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A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. (10th ed.) #538

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Church Harmonies #457

Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home and Services for Congregational Worship. Rev. ed. #d652

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Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home. (Rev. ed.) #475

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Hymns of the Church Universal #554

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