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| Agapetos Registered user Username: Agapetos Post Number: 1708 Registered: 10-2002  |
These three 'Sabbatism' hymns come from "William Gadsby's Hymns" (http://books.google.com/books?id=3HbWccdkIBoC), an old collection of "Strict Baptist" hymns put together in 1814, revised later in 1838 and... 1844! The compiler (and often writer) of the hymns was William Gadsby, a Baptist minister in Manchester, England. Born in 1773 and died in ... 1844! #358, by Joseph Hart God thus commanded Jacob's seed, When, from Egyptian-bondage freed, He led them by the way: "Remember, with a mighty hand I brought thee forth from Pharaoh's land; Then keep my Sabbath Day." [In six days God made heaven and earth Gave all the various creatures birth, And from his working ceased; These days to labour he applied; The seventh he blessed and sanctified. And called the day of rest.] To all God's people now remains A Sabbatism, a rest from pains, And works of slavish kind; When tired with toil, and faint through fear, The child of God can enter here, And sweet refreshment find. To this, by faith, he oft retreats; Bondage and labour quite forgets, And bids his cares adieu; Slides softly into promised rest, Reclines his head on Jesus' breast, And proves the Sabbath true. [This, and this only, is the way To rightly keep the Sabbath Day, Which God has holy made. All keepers that come short of this, The substance of the Sabbath miss, And grasp an empty shade.] #638, by William Gadsby With sin and guilt poor Zion toils, And labours hard for peace; But till the Lord the Saviour smiles, Her conscience gets no ease. [Her efforts all abortive prove; Her working makes her worse; Nought by the Saviour's flesh and blood Can save her from the curse.] The Lord the Saviour is her rest; On him she casts her cares; By faith she leans upon his breast, And banishes her fears. But till the Holy Ghost applies The Saviour's precious blood, Above her guilt she cannot rise, Nor lean upon her God. #639, by William Gadsby Return to thy rest, my soul, and rejoice; Let Christ be thy boast, for thou art his choice; And through sin and Satan, and their hellish guest, Do vex and dishearten, Jehovah's thy rest. A sweet resting-place is Jesus to thee; A fulness of grace, rich, sovereign, and free; From slavish works cease, then, and rest in the Lamb, For Christ is thy freedom from wrath, law, and sin. O yield not to fear, rest only in Christ; His promise is sure: he's Jesus thy Priest; And by one atonement thy sin has condemned, Then by himself sworn that he'll love to the end. Return, then, my soul, to Jesus, thy Rest; By faith on him roll, and lean on his breast; He will not deceive thee; his faithfulness prove; He never can leave thee, till God is not love. | ||
| Dennis Registered user Username: Dennis Post Number: 1594 Registered: 4-2000  |
Ramone, Thanks for posting these old hymns that indicate our rest in Jesus. Truly, Christian hymnody reveals important biblical truths. Resting in Him, Dennis Fischer | ||
| Psalm107v2 Registered user Username: Psalm107v2 Post Number: 84 Registered: 10-2008 |
WOW Absolutetly amazing hymns--I can't help but think of Eph 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; and Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God I hated hymns when I was SDA, now I prefer them to modern day music beause they have clear messages of the gospel in them. Imagine if these songs had been a regular part of the liturgy to those who founded and fell into the SDA church back in the 1800s. |
