A Holy Heart the Savior's Home

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What is our calling's glorious hope

Author: Charles Wesley (1742)
Published in 74 hymnals

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	I'll Praise My Maker - Three Hymn Settin…

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	An American Suite for Violin and Piano

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1 What is our calling's glorious hope
but inward holiness?
For this to Jesus I look up;
I calmly wait for this.

2 I wait, till He shall touch me clean,
shall life and pow'r impart,
Give me the faith that casts out sin
and purifies the heart.

3 This is the dear redeeming grace,
for ev'ry sinner free;
Surely it shall on me take place,
The chief of sinners, me.

4 From all iniquity, from all,
He shall my soul redeem;
In Jesus I believe, and shall
believe myself to Him.

5 When Jesus makes my hearth His home,
My sin shall all depart;
And lo! He saith, I quickly come,
to fill and rule thy heart.

6 Be it according to Thy word;
Redeem me from all sin;
My heart would now receive Thee, Lord;
come in, my Lord, come in!

Source: Our Great Redeemer's Praise #492

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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 >

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First Line:	What is our calling's glorious hope
Title:	A Holy Heart the Savior's Home
Author:	Charles Wesley (1742)
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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MARTYRDOM (Wilson)

MARTYRDOM was originally an eighteenth-century Scottish folk melody used for the ballad "Helen of Kirkconnel." Hugh Wilson (b. Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, c. 1766; d. Duntocher, Scotland, 1824) adapted MARTYRDOM into a hymn tune in duple meter around 1800. A triple-meter version of the tune was fir…

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HENRY (Pond)

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