Sunday's Hymn: Rejoice, Ye Pure In Heart

Rejoice ye pure in heart;
Rejoice, give thanks, and sing;
Your glorious banner wave on high,
The cross of Christ your King.

Refrain

Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice,
Give thanks and sing.

Your clear hosannas raise;
And alleluias loud;
Whilst answering echoes upward float,
Like wreaths of incense cloud.

Yes, on through life’s long path,
Still chanting as ye go;
From youth to age, by night and day,
In gladness and in woe.

At last the march shall end;
The wearied ones shall rest;
The pilgrims find their heavenly home,
Jerusalem the blessed.

Praise Him who reigns on high,
The Lord whom we adore,
The Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
One God forevermore.

—Ed­ward H. Plump­tre

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• Update: Steadfast Toward Jerusalem at Conjubilant with Song
• Rejoice the Lord Is King at Jam and Books
• Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus at Field Stone Cottage
• Rejoice the Lord Is King at Rosemary at Home
• Jesu, Our Lenten Fast of Thee at The Happy Wonderer
• Lord’s Day 14 at Tried With Fire 
• Faith Alone - April 1, 2012 at The Upward Call
• Lord’s Day 14, 2012 at The Thirsty Theologian
• A Sunday Psalm: The Treasury of David - Psalm 3:4-5 at Theology for Girls
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: Spurgeon on Depression

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.

This Week in Housekeeping

It’s been a very busy week, but I did manage to add a few newish links I’d saved for two theological term posts.

Trinity

• Added a link to Tim Challies’ Visual Theology - The Trinity.
• Added a link to J. I. Packer’s Trinity (an excerpt from Concise Theology.)

typology

• Added a link to Tim Challies’  A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words.

Praise for Faith

Of all the gifts Thine hand bestows,

Thou Giver of all good!

Not heaven itself a richer knows

Than my Redeemer’s blood.

Faith too, the blood-receiving grace,

From the same hand we gain;

Else, sweetly as it suits our case,

That gift had been in vain.

Till Thou Thy teaching power apply,

Our hearts refuse to see,

And weak, as a distemper’d eye,

Shut out the view of Thee.

Blind to the merits of Thy Son,

What misery we endure!

Yet fly that Hand from which alone

We could expect a cure.

We praise Thee, and would praise Thee more,

To Thee our all we owe:

The precious Saviour, and the power

That makes Him precious too.

—William Cowper

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More Cowper poetry:

• Jehovah Our Righteousness
• The Contrite Heart
• The New Convert
• Old Testament Gospel
• To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut
• Jehovah-Jesus
• Self-Acquaintance

On the life of Cowper: 

• A lecture on the life of Cowper by Michael Haykin 
• Cowper 1
• Cowper 2