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.

Original text and translations

English text

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.