Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Now by the bowels of my Lord
Topic: Love and Union
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 168
Page Number: 192, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNow, by the bowels of my Lord,
His sharp distress, his sore complaints,
By his last groans, his dying blood,
I charge my soul to love the saints.
Clamor, and wrath, and war, begone;
Envy and spite, forever cease;
Let bitter words no more be known:
Among the saints, the sons of peace.
The spirit, like a peaceful dove,
Flies from the realms of noise and strife;
Why should we vex and grieve his love,
Who seals our souls to heavenly life?
Tender and kind be all our thoughts,
Thro' all our lives let mercy run;
So God forgives our num'rous faults,
In Jesus Christ, his only son.