Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Now by the bowels of my God
Topic: Christian Love
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 142
Page Number: 142, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNow by the bowels of my God,
His sharp distress, his sore complaints,
By his heart-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, be joy and peace.
Thy 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 heav'nly life?
Tender and kind be all our thoughts,
Thro' all our lives let mercy run;
So God forgives our numerous faults,
In Jesus Christ his only Son.