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Text:And Is Thy Work, Oh God, A Fire?
Author:Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795
Tune:BUTLER
Composer:Anonymous
Media:MIDI file

15876. And Is Thy Work, Oh God, A Fire?

1 And is Thy Word, oh God, a fire?
Let light and heat from thence proceed;
The holy flame by it produced
Do Thou with constant fuel feed.

2 Is it a hammer? let it break
This hard unfeeling heart of mine,
And by its oft repeated strokes,
Prepare the way for joys divine.

3 Let not Thy faithful servants, Lord,
Of fruitless labors e’er complain;
Oh may this fire be never quenched,
This hammer never strike in vain.

4 Lord, send Thy truth to every land,
Let pagans feel its mighty power;
And let its wide dominion spread,
Till sin and death are known no more.

Text Information
First Line: And is Thy Word, oh God, a fire?
Title: And Is Thy Work, Oh God, A Fire?
Author: Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton & Briggs, 1818)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: BUTLER
Composer: Anonymous (1872)
Meter: LM
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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