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Text:But If Thou Wilt Not Save Us Here
Author:Charles Wesley
Tune:WINDSOR
Composer:Christopher Tye
Media:MIDI file

4484. But If Thou Wilt Not Save Us Here

1 But if Thou wilt not save us here
From the tormentor’s power,
Faithful to death we persevere,
And meet the fiery hour.

2 We will not bow our heart or knee,
And live to idols joined,
Assured the life we lose for these
In paradise to find.

Text Information
First Line: But if Thou wilt not save us here
Title: But If Thou Wilt Not Save Us Here
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: WINDSOR
Composer: Christopher Tye (1533)
Meter: CM
Key: g minor
Source: Arr.: Booke of Musicke by William Daman, 1591
Copyright: Public Domain



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