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Lamb Slain Before the Foundations of the World

How shall our feeble lips proclaim

Author: John Peacock
Published in 3 hymnals


Representative Text

1 How shall our feeble lips proclaim
The honours of the Saviour's name?
Or how the gratitude declare,
Our hearts inflam'd to Jesus bear?

2 To manifest his wond'rous love,
Behold he leaves the worlds above;
From climes of bliss beyond the sky,
Swift he descends, to bleed and die.

3 Lo, he again from death revives,
Jesus the great Redeemer lives;
High, seated on his Father's throne,
He sheds his choicest blessings down.

Source: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: selected and original, designed for the use of the Church Universal in public and private devotion #CCXXIV

Author: John Peacock

Peacock, John, was born in 1731; became a Wesleyan Minister in 1767, retired therefrom through ill health in 1796, and died in 1803. In 1776 he published Songs of Praise compiled from the Holy Scriptures. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)  Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: How shall our feeble lips proclaim
Title: Lamb Slain Before the Foundations of the World
Author: John Peacock
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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