Come, ye that know and fear the Lord
Come, ye that know and fear the Lord. George Burder* (1752-1832).
First published in Burder’s A Collection of Hymns, from Various Authors. Intended as a Supplement to Dr Watts’s Hymns, and Imitation of the Psalms (Coventry, 1784). It was entitled ‘God is love’, and was signed ‘B’. It had nine stanzas, three of which were in square brackets, a practice borrowed from Isaac Watts*. Since many variant texts of this hymn exist, it is useful to have the original form:
Come, ye that know and fear the Lord,
And lift your souls above;
Let ev’ry heart and voice accord
To sing, that God is love.
This precious truth, his word declares,
And all his mercies prove;
Jesus, the Gift of...
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