Faith

When faith to Sinai looks

Author: William Gadsby
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 When faith to Sinai looks,
It fills the heart with dread;
And justifies the dreadful stroke
That strikes the sinner dead.

2 And when by faith we trace
Christ is the only way
From endless wrath to endless bliss,
We for the blessing pray.

3 But when faith views the Lamb,
As my atoning Priest,
It magnifies his precious name,
And sets the heart at rest.

4 How precious is the faith
That God to Zion gives!
It triumphs over sin and death,
And in Jehovah lives.

Source: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #713

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Author: William Gadsby

Gadsby, William , was born in 1773 at Attleborough, in Warwickshire. In 1793 he joined the Baptist church at Coventry, and in 1798 began to preach. In 1800 a chapel was built for him at Desford, in Leicestershire, and two years later another in the town of Hinckley. In 1805 he removed to Manchester, becoming minister of a chapel in Rochdale Boad, where he continued until his death, in January, 1844. Gadsby was for many years exceedingly popular as a preacher of the High Calvinist faith, and visited in that capacity most parts of England. He published The Nazarene's Songs, being a composition of Original Hymns, Manchester, 1814; and Hymns on the Death of the Princess Charlotte, Manchester, 1817. In 1814 he also published A Selection of Hymn… Go to person page >

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