Ye children of Jesus, who're bound for the kingdom

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This is a hymn by John Granade, 1804. Meter is 12 11.12 11.12 12.12 11.

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Wyeth's Repository, Part Second, 1813

1. Ye children of Jesus, who're bound for the kingdom.
Attune all your voices and help me to sing.
Sweet anthems of praises to my loving Jesus;
For he is my Prophet, my Priest and my King.
When Jesus first found me, astray I was going;
His love did surround me and saved me from sin;
He kindly embraced me, and freely he blessed me,
And taught me aloud his sweet praises to sing.

2. Why should you go mourning from such a physician,
Who is able and willing your sickness to cure;
Come to him believing, though bad your condition,
His Father has promised your case to ensure;
My soul he hath healed, my heart he rejoices
He brought me to Zion to join the glad voices,
I'll serve him and praise him, and always adore him;
Till we meet him in heaven where parting is no more.

3. My heart's now in heaven to Jesus ascended,
I'm bound to press on to the mark for the prize,
And when my temptations and trials are ended,
With wings of bright seraphs my soul shall arise.
0 Christians, I'm happy at this contemplation
My soul it drinks in the sweet streams of salvation;
I long to be flying, that I may be vying
With the tallest archangel that shouts in the skies.

4. Cheer up, ye dear pilgrims, for Canaan's before you;
We'll scale the bright mountains still shouting free grace;
In Zion's fair borders we'll sing Hallelujah,
And sit in the smiles of Emmanuel's face.
To those who there enter, there is no returning,
No sorrow nor sighing, no weeping nor mourning,
But joyfully feasting and shouting and singing,
All glory to Jesus who brought this free grace.

5. My soul's full of glory, I'll not stay much longer,
Bright angels in heaven now call me away;
My spirit in Jesus grows stronger and stronger;
My soul now exults to behold the glad day.
O Christians, O Christians, O had you not rather
Be now in full glory, with your blessed Father.
When clouds and temptations, and pains and vexations,
Are ail lost forever in perfect bright day.

6. This moment the angels are hovering around us,
And joining with mortals, to praise their sweet King;
And waiting for Jesus to call and to crown us,
To make the bright arches of heaven to ring.
There with our dear Savior we'll meet one another,
The wife and the husband, the sister and brother;
In the highest measure of love's sweet pleasure,
Salvation through Jesus forever we'll sing.

 

Southern Harmony, 1835

1. Ye children of Jesus, who're bound for the kingdom,
Attune all your voices, and help me to sing
Sweet anthems of praises to my loving Jesus,
For he is my prophet, my priest, and my king;
When Jesus first found me astray I was going,
His love did surround me, and saved me from ruin,
He kindly embraced me, and freely he blessed me,
And taught me aloud his sweet praises to sing.

2. Why should you go mourning from such a physician,
Come to him believing, though bad your condition,
My soul he hath healed, my heart he rejoices,
I'll serve him, and praise him, and always adore him
Who's able and willing your sickness to cure
His Father has promised your case to ensure:
He brought me to Zion, to hear the glad voices,
Till we meet in heaven where parting's no more.

 

Shaffer's Pilgrim Songster, 1848

1. Ye children of Jesus, that's bound for the kingdom.
Attune all your voices, and help me to sing.
Sweet anthems of praises to my precious Jesus;
For he is my Prophet, my Priest and my King.
When Jesus first found me, to Hell I was going;
His mercy prevented my final undoing;
He kindly embraced me, and sweetly he kissed me,
And taught my glad tongue his salvation to sing.

2. Why should we go mourning from such a physician,
Who's able and willing our sickness to cure;
We'll ask him believing, though bad our condition,
The cause of the faithful his word will ensure;
My soul he has healed, my glad heart rejoices
He's brought me to Zion to join their glad voices,
I'll serve him and praise him, and always adore him;
Through grace I will meet him when dangers are o'er.

3. My thoughts are in Heaven to Jesus ascended,
I'm bound to press toward the mark for the prize,
And when my temptations and trials are ended,
With a convoy of seraphs my spirit shall rise.
0! Christians, I'm happy at this contemplation
My soul's drinking in the sweet streams of salvation;
I long to be flying, that I may be vying
With the tallest bright angel that shouts in the skies.

4. Cheer up, ye dear pilgrims, for Canaan's before us;
We'll scale the bright mountains while shouting free grace;
In the new Jerusalem we'll sing hallelujahs,
And sit in the smiles of sweet Jesus' face;
No sorrow, no sighing, no weeping nor mourning,
To those that there enter, there is no returning,
But eating and drinking and shouting and singing,
Salvation and glory to Jesus' grace.

5. My soul's full of glory, I'll not stay much longer,
0! come my dear Savior and make no delay;
I feel thy sweet spirit grow stronger and stronger;
My soul's now exulting to see the glad day.
O! Christians, O! Christians, had you not rather
Be shouting in glory, with your blessed Father.
When clouds and temptations, sins, pains and vexations,
Are ail lost forever, in perfect bright day.

6. This moment the angels are hovering around us,
And joining with mortals, to praise their sweet King;
They're waiting for Jesus to call us and crown us,
To cause the glad arches of heaven to ring.
There with our dear Father we'll meet one another,
The wife and the husband, the sister and brother;
In the bottomless ocean, of love's sweet commotion,
Salvation to Jesus forever we'll sing.

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