Not to ourselves again

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Not to ourselves again

Author: Horatius Bonar
Published in 15 hymnals

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1 Not to ourselves again,
Not to the flesh we live;
Not to the world henceforth shall we
Our strength, our being give.

2 The past time past of our lives
Sufficeth to have wrought
The fleshly will, which only ill
Has to us ever brought.

3 No longer is our life
A thing unused or vain;
To us, now here, to live is Christ,
To us to die is gain.

4 Our life is hid with Christ,
With Christ in God above;
Upward our heart would go to Him,
Whom, seeing not, we love.

5 When He who is our life
Appears, to take the throne,
We too shall be revealed and shine
In glory like His own.

6 He liveth, and we live!
His life for us prevails;
His fullness fills our mighty void,
His strength for us avails.

7 Life worketh in us now,
Life is for us in store;
So death is swallowed up of life;
We live for evermore.

8 Shine as the sun shall we
In that bright kingdom then,
Our sky without a cloud or mist,
Ourselves without a stain.

9 Like Him we then shall be.
Transformed and glorified;
For we shall see Him as He is
And in His light abide.

10 Not to ourselves we live,
Not to ourselves we die;
Unto the Lord we die or live,
With Him are we on high.

11 We seek the things above,
For we are only His;
Like Him we soon shall be, for we
Shall see Him as He is.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15866

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Author: Horatius Bonar

Horatius Bonar was born at Edinburgh, in 1808. His education was obtained at the High School, and the University of his native city. He was ordained to the ministry, in 1837, and since then has been pastor at Kelso. In 1843, he joined the Free Church of Scotland. His reputation as a religious writer was first gained on the publication of the "Kelso Tracts," of which he was the author. He has also written many other prose works, some of which have had a very large circulation. Nor is he less favorably known as a religious poet and hymn-writer. The three series of "Hymns of Faith and Hope," have passed through several editions. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	Not to ourselves again
Author:	Horatius Bonar
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Not to ourselves again
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

HYTHE (West)

ST. THOMAS (Williams)

ST. THOMAS is actually lines 5 through 8 of the sixteen-line tune HOLBORN, composed by Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) and published in his Collection (1763, 1765) as a setting for Charles Wesley's text "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" (570). The harmonization is by Lowell Maso…

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ST. ANDREW (Barnby)

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