I Hear the Words

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I hear the words of love

Author: Horatius Bonar
Tune: ST. MICHAEL (Genevan)
Published in 83 hymnals

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	Ten Chorale Improvisations, Set 5

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	O God, Beyond All Praising - Hymn Settin…

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	Hymns of Love and Praise (Distinctive Se…

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1 I hear the words of love;
I gaze upon the blood;
I see the mighty sacrifice,
and I have peace with God.

2 ’Tis everlasting peace,
sure as Jehovah’s name;
’tis stable as His steadfast throne,
forevermore the same.

3 The clouds may go and come,
and storms may sweep my sky,
this blood-brought friendship changes not;
the cross is ever nigh.

4 I change- He changes not;
the Christ can never die;
His love, not mine, the resting place;
His truth, not mine, the tie.

5 My love is oft-times low;
my joy still ebbs and flows;
but peace with Him remains the same;
no change Jehovah knows.

Source: Psalms and Hymns to the Living God #342

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Author: Horatius Bonar

Horatius Bonar was born at Edinburgh, in 1808. His education was obtained at the High School, and the University of his native city. He was ordained to the ministry, in 1837, and since then has been pastor at Kelso. In 1843, he joined the Free Church of Scotland. His reputation as a religious writer was first gained on the publication of the "Kelso Tracts," of which he was the author. He has also written many other prose works, some of which have had a very large circulation. Nor is he less favorably known as a religious poet and hymn-writer. The three series of "Hymns of Faith and Hope," have passed through several editions. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872… Go to person page >

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First Line:	I hear the words of love
Title:	I Hear the Words
Author:	Horatius Bonar
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

I hear the words of love. H. Bonar. [Good Friday—Holy Communion.] Appended in the 2nd series of his Hymns of Faith & Hope, 1861, in 10 stanzas of 4 lines, and headed, "He died and lives." Two centos from this hymn are in common use, both beginning with stanza i. The first, suitable for Passiontide, is in Nicholson's Appendix Hymnal, 1866; and the second, for Holy Communion, in Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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