[Can it be that Jesus bought me]

[Can it be that Jesus bought me]

Composer: E. A. Hoffman
Published in 28 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: E. A. Hoffman

Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Can it be that Jesus bought me]
Composer: E. A. Hoffman
Incipit: 11651 16511 23311
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances

Instances (1 - 28 of 28)
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Best Hymns No. 3 #152

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Best Hymns No. 4 #163

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Bible Songs #51

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Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings #75

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Choice Songs #94

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Christian Hymns No. 1 #67

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Crowning Day No. 5 #47

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Gospel Melodies #87

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Gospel Songs of Grace and Glory #135

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Harp of Zion #89

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Kingdom of Song for the Sunday School #72

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Liederperlen #205

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Pentecostal Hymns No. 2 #138

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Pentecostal Praises #188

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Redemption Songs #320

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Revival Praises #62

Silberklänge #205

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Songs of Grace and Truth #38

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Songs of Matchless Love #91

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Songs of Praise and Consecration #38

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Songs of Praise and Victory #56

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Songs of Redemption #202

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Songs of the Peacemaker #48

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Songs of Triumph No.s 1 and 2 Combined #147

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Soul Winning Songs #214

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The Bow of Promise #37

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The Epworth Hymnal No. 3 #38

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Victory Bells #78

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