Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1815
Compiler: John Thompson et al
Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace
First Line: Let Pharisees of high esteem
Topic: Christian Love
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 197
Page Number: 174, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLet Pharisees of high esteem,
Their faith and zeal declare;
All their religion is a dream,
If love be wanting there.
Love suffers long and patiently,
Nor is provoked in haste;
She lets the present injury die,
And long forgets the past.
Malice and rage, those fires of hell,
She quenches with her tongue;
Hopes and believes, and thinks no ill,
Tho she endures the wrong.
She ne'er desires, nor seeks to know,
The scandals of the time;
Nor looks with pride on those below,
Nor envies those that climb.
She lays her own advantage by,
To seek her neighbor's good;
So God's own Son came down to die,
And bought our lives with blood.
Love is the grace that keeps her power,
In all the realms above;
There faith and hope are known no more,
But saints forever love.