Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IV · §45

The hymn

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You, O Lord, in tender love, bear all my burdens. Lift my heart to things above, and fix it ever there. Calm on the wheel of tumult I sit, among busy multitudes alone, sweetly waiting at your feet, till all your will is done.

1771 text

Thou, O Lord, in tender love Dost all my burdens bear; Lift my heart to things above, And fix it ever there. Calm on tumult’s wheel I sit; Midst busy multitudes alone, Sweetly waiting at thy feet, Till all thy will be done.

About this text

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Catalogue & scope

Sermon 24 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:13-16.

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