The Lord of Sabbath let us praise
The Lord of Sabbath let us praise. Samuel Wesley (II)* (1691-1739).
Published in Samuel Wesley’s Poems on Several Occasions (1736), in four stanzas, entitled ‘An Hymn for Sunday’:
The Lord of Sabbath let us praise, In Consort with the Blest; Who, joyful in harmonious Lays, Employ an endless Rest.
Thus, Lord, while we remember Thee, We blest and pious grow; By Hymns of Praise we learn to be Triumphant here below.
On this glad Day a brighter Scene Of Glory was display’d, By God th’Eternal Word, than when This Universe was made.
He rises, who Mankind has bought With Grief and Pains extream; ’Twas great to speak the World from nought, ’Twas greater to redeem.
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