Behold what love the Father hath

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Behold what love the Father hath

Author: Robert Boswell
Tune: SOUTHAMPTON (Chetham)
Published in 13 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Behold what love the Father hath
On guilty men bestowed,
That we, who children are of wrath,
Should children be of God.

2 O how beyond expression great
His love in Christ doth shine!
‘Tis like Himself, the Eternal God,
Past knowledge, all divine.

3 Behold, for fallen, guilty man
The Lord of glory dies;
Lays down His life us to redeem,
A precious sacrifice.

4 Peace and goodwill are now to man
Most gloriously displayed,
And life eternal we obtain
From God in Christ our Head.

Source: Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church #174

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Author: Robert Boswell

Boswell, Robert, born 1746, in Ayrshire. He received a classical education, and was an excellent Hebrew scholar. For some time he was a writer to the Signet in Edinburgh. He joined the followers of John Glas, a dissenting minister from the Church of Scotland, and was chosen to be leading elder of the Glassite congregation at Edinburgh. Whilst highly appreciating the Scottish Version of the Psalms, he thought it to be susceptible of improvement, and published a revised version in 1784 as The Psalms in Metre from the Original. In 1786 a 2nd edition appeared with the new title The British Psalter. He died suddenly whilst preaching in London, Sunday, April 1st, 1804. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) Go to person page >

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