Introduction
National Portrait Gallery
Words: John Cennick, Sacred Hymns for the Children of God in the Days of Their Pilgrimage 1743.
Music: Emmons arranged from an instrumental march by Friedrich Burgmüller (1806–1874) (🔊 pdf nwc).
The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Psalm 110:4
Words: John Cennick, Sacred Hymns for the Children of God in the Days of Their Pilgrimage 1743.
Music: Emmons arranged from an instrumental march by Friedrich Burgmüller (1806–1874) (🔊 pdf nwc).
Thou dear Redeemer, dying Lamb,
I love to hear of Thee;
No music like Thy charming name,
Is half so sweet to me,
Is half so sweet to me.
O let me ever hear Thy voice
In mercy to me speak!
And in my Priest, will I rejoice,
My great Melchizedek,
My great Melchizedek.
My Jesus shall be still my theme,
While in this world I stay;
I’ll sing my Jesus’ lovely name
When all things else decay,
When all things else decay.
When I appear in yonder cloud,
With all Thy favored throng,
Then I will sing more sweet, more loud,
And Christ shall be my song,
And Christ shall be my song.
