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Text:Tremendous God, with Humble Fear
Author:Charles Wesley
Tune:STERLING
Composer:Ralph Harrison, 1748-1810
Media:MIDI file

6896. Tremendous God, with Humble Fear

1. Tremendous God, with humble fear,
Prostrate before Thy awful throne,
The irrevocable word we hear,
The sovereign righteous we own.

2. ’Tis fit we should to dust return
Since such the will of the Most High;
In sin conceived, to trouble born,
Born only to lament and die.

3. Submissive to Thy just decree,
We all shall soon from earth remove;
But when Thou sendest, Lord, for me,
O let the messenger be love!

4. Whisper Thy love into my heart,
Warn me of my approaching end;
And then I joyfully depart,
And then I to Thy arms ascend.

Text Information
First Line: Tremendous God, with humble fear
Title: Tremendous God, with Humble Fear
Author: Charles Wesley (1772)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: Preparation for Death, 1772
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: STERLING
Composer: Ralph Harrison, 1748-1810
Meter: LM
Incipit: 11111 21233 33432
Key: A Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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