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240. I Love Your Church, O God

Text Information
First Line: I love your church, O God
Title: I Love Your Church, O God
Author: Timothy Dwight (1801, alt.)
Meter: SM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Tune Information
Name: ST. THOMAS
Meter: SM
Key: F Major or modal
Source: Aaron Williams' New Universal Psalmodist, 1770


Text Information:

Timothy Dwight was President of Yale College. In this hymn we see him as a bridge between the Calvinism of his grandfather Jonathan Edwards and the more liberal theology to follow


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