Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Come you that love the Lrod
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Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Hymn Number: 96
Page Number: 055, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCOME you that love the Lord,
And let your joys be known;
Join in a song of 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 children of the heav'nly King,
May speak their joys abroad.
The God that rules on high,
And thunders when he please,
That rides upon the stormy sky
And calms the roaring seas;
This mighty God is ours,
Our Father and our Love;
He will send down his heav'nly pow'rs
To carry us above.
There shall we 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
Shall 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 ev'ry tear be dry;
We're marching through this barren ground,
To fairer worlds on high.