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Text:Set Forth Before Our Eyes
Author:Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Tune:ARTHUR'S SEAT
Composer:John Goss
Media:MIDI file

8989. Set Forth Before Our Eyes

1 Set forth before our eyes,
As fastened to the tree
The Lord of earth and skies,
Th’ eternal God we see,
God over all in form of man,
Jehovah for His creatures slain!

2 Who call Thy death to mind,
Let us its virtues prove,
The Lover of mankind,
The Friend of sinners love,
Whose death is immortality,
Is glorious life, and Heaven to me.

Text Information
First Line: Set forth before our eyes
Title: Set Forth Before Our Eyes
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Meter: 66.66.88
Language: English
Source: Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, Vol. III (Nashville: Abingdom Press, 1992)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ARTHUR'S SEAT
Composer: John Goss (1874)
Meter: 66.66.88
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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