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Philip Doddridge·Post-Reformation
Verse 1
How gentle God’s commands!
How kind his precepts are!
Come, cast your burdens on the Lord,
And trust his constant care.
Verse 2
His bounty will provide;
His saints securely dwell;
That hand which bears creation up,
Shall guard his children well.
Verse 3
Why should this anxious load
Press down your weary mind?
Oh, seek your heavenly Father’s throne,
And peace and comfort find.
Verse 4
His Goodness Stands approved,
Unchanged from day to day;
I’ll drop my burden at his feet,
And bear a song away.
Philip Doddridge, “How Gentle God's Commands!”
Otterbein 1890 No. 335 · S.M · Dennis
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Robert Robinson·Post-Reformation
Verse 1
Come, thou Fount of ev’ry blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount--I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of thy redeeming love.
Verse 2
Here I’ll raise mine Ebenezer,
Hither by thy help I’m come;
And I hope by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wand’ring from the fold of God,
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed his precious blood.
Verse 3
Oh! to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wand’ring heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it;
Prone to leave the God I love--
Here’s my heart, oh, take and seal it;
Seal it for thy courts above.
Robert Robinson, “Come, Thou Fount of Ev'ry Blessing”
Otterbein 1890 No. 338 · 8s & 7s. 6 or 8 lines · Nettleton
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