Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Come ye that love the Lord
Topic: Rejoicing in God
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 88
Page Number: 090, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCome, ye that love the Lord,
And let your joys be known;
Join in a song with sweet accord,
And thus surround the throne.
The sorrows of the mind
Be banish'd from this place;
Religion never was design'd
To make our pleasures less.
Let those refuse to sing,
Who never knew our God;
But fav'rites of the heav'nly king
Should speak their joys abroad.
The God who rules on high,
And thunders from when he please,
Who rides upon the stormy sky
And manages the seas:
This awful God is ours,
Our Father and our love;
He will send down his heav'nly powers
To carry us above.
There we shall see his face,
And never, never sin;
There, from the rivers of his grace,
Drink endless pleasures in.
Yes, and before we rise
To that immortal state;
The thoughts of such amazing bliss
Should constant joys create.
The men of grace have found
Glory begun below;
Celestial fruits on earthly ground,
From faith and hope may grow.
The hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets,
Before we reach the heav'nly fields,
Or walk the golden streets.
Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
We're marching thro' Immaneul's ground
To fairer worlds on high.