Obedience (Oliver Holden)

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  • (Posted 2015-08-28)  CPDL #36638:       
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-08-28).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 68 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Four-part version. Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2015. Oval note edition. All four stanzas included.
  • (Posted 2015-08-28)  CPDL #36637:     
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-08-28).   Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 61 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Four-part version. Counter part by B. C. Johnston, 2015. Note shapes added (4-shape). All four stanzas included.
  • (Posted 2015-08-28)  CPDL #36636:       
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-08-28).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 59 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Three-part version. Oval note edition, as written in 1803. All four stanzas included.
  • (Posted 2015-08-28)  CPDL #36635:     
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-08-28).   Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 55 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Three-part version. Note shapes added (4-shape). All four stanzas included.

General Information

Title: Obedience
First Line: Come, all ye lovers of the Lamb
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1803 in The Charlestown Collection, 1803, p. 30, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass
Description: Words by an anonymous author, perhaps Holden himself, since they were first published in 1803 and only appear here and in another Holden publication. Four stanzas.

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Original text and translations

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1. Come, all ye lovers of the Lamb,
This path your dear Redeemer trod;
Behold Him bending in the stream,
See Him arise approved of God.

2. Repenting sinner, hither come;
Nor linger on the distant shore;
Your Savior made this solemn rite
An emblem of His saving power.

3. By faith alone the trembling soul
Can urge her claim to children's food;
She quits her hold on hopeless forms,
And seeks in Christ her only good.

4. Obedience flows from willing minds,
Renewed and purified by grace;
Come freely to the gospel pool,
All ye who humbly seek His face.