Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: And must this body die (FL)

Hymnal: The Pilgrim's Hymn Book

Date: 1816

Compiler: Joseph Thomas

Publisher/Printer: J Foster

First Line: And must this body die

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: SM

Tune:

Hymn Number: XIV

Page Number: 022, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

And must this body die,

This mortal frame decay;

And must these active limbs of mine

Lie mouldering in the clay.



Corruption, earth and worms

Can but destroy this flesh;

Till Christ my resurrection comes

To raise it up afresh.



Array'd in glorious grace,

Shall these vile bodies shine;

And every shape, and every face

Look heav'nly and divine.



These lively hopes we owe

To Jesus' conq'ring love;

We would adore his grace below,

And sing his power above.



Dear Lord accept the praise

Of these our humble songs;

'Till tunes of nobler sounds we raise,

With our immortal tongues.