Love divine, all loves excelling

General information

This is an hymn by Charles Wesley, 1747, Hymns for Those that Seek and Those That Have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ, Hymn 9. Meter is 87. 87. D.

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Rowland Hugh Prichard — Love divine, all loves excelling  English SATB
• William Penfro Rowlands — Love divine, all loves excelling  English SATB
• Andrew Sims — Blaenwern  English S
• John Stainer — Love divine  English SATB
• Henk Vogel — Blaenwern  English SS

Text and translations

English text 1. Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heaven to earth come down, Fix in us thy humble dwelling, All thy faithful mercies crown; Jesus, thou art all compassion, Pure unbounded love thou art, Visit us with thy salvation, Enter every trembling heart.

2. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit Into every troubled breast, Let us all in thee inherit, Let us find that second rest: Take away our power of sinning, Alpha and Omega be, End of faith as its beginning, Set our hearts at liberty.

3. Come, Almighty to deliver, Let us all thy life receive, Suddenly return, and never, Never more thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, Serve thee as thy hosts above, Pray, and praise thee without ceasing, Glory in thy perfect love.

4. Finish then thy new creation, Pure and sinless let us be, Let us see thy great salvation, Perfectly restored in thee; Changed from glory into glory, Till in heaven we take our place, Till we cast our crowns before thee, Lost in wonder, love, and praise!

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