May the grace of Christ our Saviour
May the grace of Christ our Saviour. John Newton* (1725-1807).
Olney Hymns (1779) includes this text as a single stanza of eight lines in a group of ‘Short Hymns’ at the end of Book III, ‘On the Rise, Progress, Changes, and Comforts of the Spiritual Life’. It is headed ‘2 Corinthians xiii. 14’. It is normally divided into two stanzas. The first paraphrases Paul’s blessing on the church in Corinth, turning it into a prayer in the first person plural, while the second develops the idea. The hymn appeared in the 1889 supplement to the Second Edition of A&M (1875) and was first paired with the tune known as WALTHAM or GOTT DES HIMMELS, composed originally in triple time by Heinrich Albert...
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