CHRISTIAN CHURCH >> Ordination
SDAH 378
“Go, preach My gospel,” saith the Lord;
“Bid the whole world My grace receive;
He shall be saved who trusts My word,
And they condemned who disbelieve.
Text
1
“Go, preach My gospel,” saith the Lord;
“Bid the whole world My grace receive;
He shall be saved who trusts My word,
And they condemned who disbelieve.
2
“I’ll make your great commission known,
And ye shall prove My gospel true
By all the works that I have done,
By all the wonders ye shall do.
3
“Teach all the nations My commands;
I’m with you till the world shall end;
All power is vested in My hands;
I can destroy, and I defend.”
4
He spake, and light shone round His head;
On a bright cloud to heaven He rode;
They to the farthest nations spread
The grace of their ascended Lord.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) Mark 16:15, 16 (b) Mark 16:17 (c) Matt 28:18-20 (d) Mark 16:19, 20
Author
Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Year Published
1709
Hymn Tune
TRURO
Metrical Number
L.M.
Tune Source
T. Williams’ Psalmodia Evangelica, 1789
Hymn Score
Piano Accompaniment
Notes
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When we accept Christ as our Savior, we become members of the new covenant people, the remnant of Israel. As such, He bids us Go, Preach His Gospel because we are now among His messengers. Jesus tells us in Matthew 28:19-20 “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Lesson 13, 2nd Quarter 2021 -Thursday, New Covenant and Mission, 6/24/2021)
Isaac Watts (1674-1748; see Biographies) took various scriptures describing the events of Ascension Day and knitted them together in a flowing paraphrase. It appears, not in the 1707 edition of his Hymns and Spiritual Songs, but in book 1 of the 1709 one, in five stanzas. It is titled “The Apostles’ Commission; or, the Gospel Attested by Miracles.”
TRURO, named after the Cornish city in the tin and china clay-mining area, is found in Thomas Williams’ Psalmodia Evangelica of 1789 (see SDAH 182). The tune has a rousing entry, with its almost complete ascending scale passage of one octave, suitably broken by notes of five different time values.
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