I love Hart’s hymns! I can’t think of ever reading one that didn’t speak to some spiritual need I was experiencing or have experienced. They are rich and meaty, doctrinally sound and edifying. Today I’m posting his spiritual biography. As I had the happiness of being born of believing parents, I imbibed the sound doctrines … Continue reading Joseph Hart’s Spiritual Autobiography
Calvinism Chart 1. Hyper-Calvinism Beliefs: God is the author of sin and man has no responsibility before God. The Gospel should only preached to the elect. i.e. duty faith. and anti-missionary Belief in the five points is a prerequisite for true salvation, also known as Neo-Gnostic Calvinism. Proponents: Joseph Hussey John Skepp and some English primitive … Continue reading The Calvinism Chart (again)
1. Hyper-Calvinism Beliefs: God is the author of sin and man has no responsibility before God. The Gospel should only preached to the elect. i.e. duty faith. and anti-missionary Belief in the five points is a prerequisite for true salvation, also known as Neo-Gnostic Calvinism. Proponents: Joseph Hussey John Skepp and some English primitive Baptists. … Continue reading Calvinism Chart
It should be clear by now that I love Gadsby’s collection of hymns. William Gadsby offers some explanation for publishing his own collection of hymns in the preface to the last edition and these are precisely the same reasons why I love this little book so much. First, he wanted to guard his flock against … Continue reading Why Gadsby’s Hymns
O for a glance of heavenly day, To take this stubborn heart away, And thaw, with beams of love divine, This heart, this frozen heart of mine. The rocks can rend; the earth can quake; The seas can roar; the mountains shake: Of feeling, all things show some sign, But this unfeeling heart of mine. … Continue reading This Stupid Heart of Mine
This morning I woke to meditate and pray. I read from both testaments and from Gadsby’s Hymns which is a new title in my collection. I considered the spiritual poetry, reflecting on the grace found in each line and the depth of the experiences the hymn writers were able to reproduce in verse. Gadsby’s Hymns … Continue reading Best Devotional
A few hymns from Joseph Hart (1712 – May 24, 1768) 28 C.M. J. Hart “It is the Spirit that quickeneth.” John 6. 63; 14. 16 1 Blest Spirit of truth, eternal God, Thou meek and lowly Dove, Who fill’st the soul through Jesus’ blood, With faith, and hope, and love; 2 Who comfortest the … Continue reading Gadsby’s Hymns
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