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. The last two lines...

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