{"slug": "love-divine-all-loves-excelling", "title": "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling", "first_line": "Love divine, all loves excelling", "author": "charles-wesley", "author_date": "1747", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 7, 8, 7], "doubled": true, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Consecration", "Love", "Holy Spirit", "Christian Life", "Aspiration"], "scripture": ["2 Corinthians 3:18", "Ephesians 3:17", "Hebrews 4:9", "1 John 4:16", "Revelation 1:8"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "methodist-hymnal-1905", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Charles Wesley (1707-1788); conventionally first published in Hymns for Those That Seek, and Those That Have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ (Bristol, 1747). Transcribed from the printing actually read for this record: The Methodist Hymnal (New York: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, 1905), hymn 355, printed pages 252-253 (scan leaves n263-n264), signed \"Charles Wesley\" and giving all four of Wesley's stanzas \u2014 stanza 1 under the music on p. 252, stanzas 2-3 below it, stanza 4 at the head of p. 253. That page carries the stanza-3 line as \"Let us all thy grace receive\" (some books read \"thy life receive\"); \"bent to sinning\" in stanza 2 is Wesley's unaltered wording. The 1905 book sets this text to WESTON 8s.7s.D. by J. E. Roe (first tune) and to LOVE DIVINE 8s.7s.D. by John Zundel (second tune, the melody now generally called BEECHER) \u2014 NOT to HYFRYDOL; the HYFRYDOL pairing made in this corpus is the received modern one, not the one on the source page, and is recorded as such. Public domain: author d. 1788, and the 1905 printing read here is itself pre-1931. Scan: archive.org/details/methodi00meth.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Love di -- vine, all loves ex -- cell -- ing, Joy of heav'n, to earth come down; Fix in us thy hum -- ble dwell -- ing, All thy faith -- ful mer -- cies crown: Je -- sus, thou art all com -- pas -- sion, Pure, un -- bound -- ed love thou art; Vis -- it us with thy sal -- va -- tion, En -- ter ev -- ery trem -- bling heart.", "prose": ["Love divine, all loves excelling,", "Joy of heav'n, to earth come down;", "Fix in us thy humble dwelling,", "All thy faithful mercies crown:", "Jesus, thou art all compassion,", "Pure, unbounded love thou art;", "Visit us with thy salvation,", "Enter every trembling heart."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Breathe, O breathe thy lov -- ing Spir -- it In -- to ev -- ery trou -- bled breast! Let us all in thee in -- her -- it, Let us find that sec -- ond rest: Take a -- way our bent to sin -- ning; Al -- pha and O -- me -- ga be; End of faith, as its be -- gin -- ning, Set our hearts at lib -- er -- ty.", "prose": ["Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit", "Into every troubled breast!", "Let us all in thee inherit,", "Let us find that second rest:", "Take away our bent to sinning;", "Alpha and Omega be;", "End of faith, as its beginning,", "Set our hearts at liberty."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Come, al -- might -- y to de -- liv -- er, Let us all thy grace re -- ceive; Sud -- den -- ly re -- turn, and nev -- er, Nev -- er more thy tem -- ples leave: Thee we would be al -- ways bless -- ing, Serve thee as thy hosts a -- bove, Pray, and praise thee with -- out ceas -- ing, Glo -- ry in thy per -- fect love.", "prose": ["Come, almighty to deliver,", "Let us all thy grace receive;", "Suddenly return, and never,", "Never more thy temples leave:", "Thee we would be always blessing,", "Serve thee as thy hosts above,", "Pray, and praise thee without ceasing,", "Glory in thy perfect love."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Fin -- ish then thy new cre -- a -- tion, Pure and spot -- less let us be; Let us see thy great sal -- va -- tion, Per -- fect -- ly re -- stored in thee: Changed from glo -- ry in -- to glo -- ry, Till in heav'n we take our place, Till we cast our crowns be -- fore thee, Lost in won -- der, love, and praise.", "prose": ["Finish then thy new creation,", "Pure and spotless let us be;", "Let us see thy great salvation,", "Perfectly restored in thee:", "Changed from glory into glory,", "Till in heav'n we take our place,", "Till we cast our crowns before thee,", "Lost in wonder, love, and praise."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}