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Lord, I Would Dwell With Thee

Representative Text

1. Lord, I would dwell in peace
On your most holy hill;
Oh, shed your grace abroad in me
To mold me to your will.

2. Your gate of pearl stands wide
For those who walk upright,
But those who basely turn aside
You banish from your sight.

3. Oh, tame my tongue to peace
And tune my heart to love;
From all reproaches may I cease,
Made harmless as a dove.

4. The vile, though proudly great,
No flatt’rer find in me;
I count your saints of poor estate
Far nobler company.

5. Faithful, but meekly kind,
Gentle, yet boldly true,
I would possess the perfect mind,
Which in my Lord I view.

6. But Lord, these graces all
Your Spirit’s work must be;
To you, through Jesu’s blood I call;
Create them all in me.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #67

Author: C. H. Spurgeon

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, the world-famous preacher, was born June 19, 1834, at Kelvedon, in Essex, where his father was Congregational minister. He was educated at Colchester, and at an Agricultural College at Maidstone, after which he was for a few years usher in schools at Newmarket and Cambridge. In 1851 he became minister of a small Baptist church at Waterbeach, near Cambridge, and soon attained great popularity. In 1854 he removed to New Park Street, London, the place where Drs. Gill and Rippon had formerly ministered, and ere long the thronging of people to hear him led, first, to the temporary occupation of Exeter Hall, and of the Surrey Music Hall, and then to the erection of the great Metropolitan Tabernacle, where he still minist… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Lord, I would dwell with Thee
Title: Lord, I Would Dwell With Thee
Author: C. H. Spurgeon (1866)
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

TRENTHAM

Robert Jackson (b, Oldham, Lancashire, England, 1842; d. Oldham, 1914) originally, composed TRENTHAM as a setting for Henry W. Baker's "O Perfect Life of Love" (380). Named for a village in Staffordshire, England, close to the town in which Jackson was born, the tune was published with the Baker tex…

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Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #67

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Psalms of Grace #15a

Spurgeon's Own Hymn Book #15

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