Love Divine, All Loves
Excelling
Charles Wesley
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Love
divine, all loves excelling,joy of heaven, to earth come down,
fix in us thy humble dwelling,
all thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation;
enter every trembling heart.
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Breathe, oh, breathe thy loving Spirit
into every troubled breast;
let us all in thee inherit;
let us find the promised rest.
Take away the love of sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
end of faith, as its beginning,
set our hearts at liberty.
into every troubled breast;
let us all in thee inherit;
let us find the promised rest.
Take away the love of sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
end of faith, as its beginning,
set our hearts at liberty.
.
Come,
Almighty, to deliver,let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return, and never,
nevermore thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
serve thee as thy hosts above,
pray and praise thee without ceasing,
glory in thy perfect love.
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Finish,
then, thy new creation;
pure and spotless let us be;
let us see thy great salvation
perfectly restored in thee:
changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love and praise.
pure and spotless let us be;
let us see thy great salvation
perfectly restored in thee:
changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love and praise.
A love song and story about God's love and care.
This traditional hymn called "Love Divine All Loves Excelling" was
written by Charles Wesley, and was first published in 1747.
The tune was first used or published in 1830. Music arrangement and vocals by Julie Gaulke.
The tune was first used or published in 1830. Music arrangement and vocals by Julie Gaulke.
The story behind the hymn
Rupert Christiansen
This is one of the loveliest hymns by Charles Wesley (1707-88), first
published in 1747 in his brother John Wesley's collection, rather dauntingly
entitled Hymns for those that seek, and those that have, Redemption in the
Blood of Jesus Christ. But Charles Wesley must share some of the credit: he is
thought to have been inspired, perhaps unconsciously, by a thoroughly pagan
popular song of the day, 'Fairest isle, all isles excelling', written by John
Dryden for Act 2 of Henry Purcell's opera King Arthur (1691), and the wonderful
closing line turns out to be an unambiguous crib from a poem by Joseph Addison:
When all thy mercies, o my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view I'm lost
In wonder, love and praise.
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view I'm lost
In wonder, love and praise.
Nobody has ever satisfactorily explained the meaning of 'changed from
glory into glory' in the last verse, though it has been suggested that the line
relates to 2 Corinthians 3:18: 'But we all, with open face beholding in a glass
the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory,
even as by the Spirit of the Lord.'
Percy Dearmer points out 'how few of the earlier hymns dwell upon the
thought of God as Love. The popularity in recent years of this fine hymn of
Wesley's is probably due to the fact that it does address God in this way.'
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