Hymns Ancient and Modern: For Use in the Services of the Church : with Annotations, Originals, References, Authors' & Translators' Names, and with Some Metrical Translations of the Hymns in Latin and German

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Sir Henry Williams Baker (Bart), Henry Williams Baker, Louis Coutier Biggs
Novello, 1867 - Hymns, English - 348 pages

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Page 50 - Mild He lays His glory by, Born that man no more may die, Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth. Hark ! the herald-angels sing Glory to the new-born King.
Page 313 - ... and had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel...
Page 188 - Nothing in my hand I bring; Simply to thy cross I cling ; Naked, come to thee for dress ; Helpless, look to thee for grace ; Foul, I to the fountain fly ; Wash me, Saviour, or I die.
Page 240 - OGOD, our Help in ages past, Our Hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal Home...
Page 243 - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee...
Page 106 - And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
Page 240 - A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away ; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day...
Page 3 - Direct, control, suggest, this day, All I design, or do, or say; That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite.
Page 271 - O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea.
Page 128 - And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock ; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

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