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Learning and Holiness Combined

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1 Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
to whom we for our children cry;
the good desired and wanted most
out of Thy richest grace supply;
the sacred discipline be giv'n,
to train and bring them up for heav'n.

2 Answer on them the end of all
our cares, and pains, and studies here;
on them, recovered from their fall,
stamped with the humble character;
Raised by the nurture of the Lord,
to all their paradise restored.

3 Error and ignorance remove,
their blindness both of heart and mind;
give them the wisdom from above,
spotless, and peaceable, and kind;
In knowledge pure their minds renew,
and store with thoughts divinely true.

4 Learning’s redundant part and vain
be all cut off and cast aside;
but let them, Lord, the substance gain,
in ev'ry solid truth abide;
Swiftly acquire, and ne’er forego,
The knowledge fit for them to know.

5 Unite the pair so long disjoined,
knowledge and vital piety;
learning and holiness combined,
and truth and love, let all men see;
In those whom up to Thee we give,
Thine, wholly Thine, to die and live.

6 Father, accept them through Thy Son,
and ever by Thy Spirit guide!
Thy wisdom in their lives be shown,
Thy name confessed and glorified;
Thy pow'r and love diffused abroad,
till all the earth is filled with God.

Source: Our Great Redeemer's Praise #436

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, To whom we for our children cry
Title: Learning and Holiness Combined
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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Our Great Redeemer's Praise #436

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