Library Home Page LCU Home Page

Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Love divine all love excelling (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: Love divine all love excelling

Topic: Love

Writer: Charles Wesley

Composer: John Zundel

Meter: 8s and 7s double

Tune: Love Divine

Hymn Number: 508

Page Number: 173, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

LOVE divine, all love excelling,
Joy of heaven, to earth come down,
Fix in us thy humble dwelling,
All thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
Pure, unbounded love thou art:
Visit us with thy salvation,
Enter every trembling heart.


Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit
Into every troubled breast;
Let us all in thee inherit,
Let us find the promised rest.
Take away the love of sinning,
Take our load of guilt away;
End the work of thy beginning-
Bring us to eternal day.