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How Sure the Scriptures Are!
Author: Christopher M. Idle Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 4 hymnals
How Sure the Scriptures Are!
CROFT'S 136th
Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 100 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. Croft (1678-1727) Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 51715 65345 32113 Used With Text: How sure the Scriptures are!
CROFT'S 136th
How Sure the Scriptures Are!
Author: Christopher Idle Hymnal: The Worshiping Church #312 (1990) Meter: 6.6.6.6.4.4.8 First Line: How sure the Scriptures are Lyrics: 1 How sure the Scriptures are! God's vital, urgent word,
as true as steel, and far more sharp than any sword:
so deep and fine, at his control
they pierce where soul and spirit join.
2 They test each human thought, refining like a fire;
they measure what we ought to do and to desire:
For God know all--exposed it lies
before his eyes to whom we call.
3 Let those who hear his voice confronting them today,
reject the tempting choice of doubting or delay:
For God speaks still--his word is clear,
so let us hear and do his will! Topics: Assurance; God Judge; Judgment; Holy Scriptures Scripture: Psalm 119:89 Languages: English Tune Title: DARWALL
How Sure the Scriptures Are!
How Sure the Scriptures Are!
Author: Christopher Idle Hymnal: Singing the New Testament #216 (2008) Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Lyrics: 1 How sure the Scriptures are!
God's vital, urgent word,
as true as steel, and far more sharp than any sword:
so deep and fine,
at his control they pierce
where soul and spirit join.
2 They test each human thought,
refining like a fire;
they measure what we ought to do and to desire:
for God know all -
exposed it lies
before his eyes to whom we call.
3 Let those who hear his voice
confronting them today,
reject the tempting choice of doubting or delay:
for God speaks still -
his word is clear,
so let us hear and do his will! Topics: Will of God Scripture: Hebrews 4:12-13 Languages: English Tune Title: DARWALL'S 148
How Sure the Scriptures Are!
How sure the Scriptures are!
Author: Christopher Idle (born 1938) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #249 (1987) Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Lyrics: 1 How sure the Scriptures are!
God's vital, urgent word,
as true as steel, and far
more sharp than any sword:
So deep and fine,
at his control
they pierce where soul
and spirit join.
2 They test each human thought,
refining like a fire;
they measure what we ought
to do and to desire:
For God know all —
exposed it lies
before his eyes
to whom we call.
3 Let those who hear his voice
confronting them today,
reject the tempting choice
of doubting or delay:
For God speaks still —
his word is clear,
so let us hear
and do his will! Topics: God, Spirit Word of Truth, the Scriptures; Advent 2 The Word of God in the Old Testament; Epiphany 6, Revelation Parables; Pentecost 22 The Two Ways Scripture: Hebrews 4:12-13 Languages: English Tune Title: CROFT'S 136th
How sure the Scriptures are!
Christopher M. Idle
b. 1938 Person Name: Christopher Idle Author of "How Sure the Scriptures Are!" in The Worshiping Church Christopher Martin Idle (b. Bromley, Kent, England, 1938) was educated at Elthan College, St. Peter's College, Oxford, and Clifton Theological College in Bristol, and was ordained in the Church of England. He served churches in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria; London; and Oakley, Suffolk; and recently returned to London, where he is involved in various hymnal projects. A prolific author of articles on the Christian's public responsibilities, Idle has also published The Lion Book of Favorite Hymns (1980) and at least one hundred of his own hymns and biblical paraphrases. Some of his texts first appeared in hymnals published by the Jubilate Group, with which he is associated. He was also editor of Anglican Praise (1987). In 1998 Hope Publishing released Light Upon the River, a collection of 279 of his psalm and hymn texts, along with suggested tunes, scripture references, and commentary.
Bert Polman
Christopher M. Idle
William Croft
1678 - 1727 Person Name: W. Croft (1678-1727) Composer of "CROFT'S 136th" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) William Croft, Mus. Doc. was born in the year 1677 and received his musical education in the Chapel Royal, under Dr. Blow. In 1700 he was admitted a Gentleman Extraordinary of the Chapel Boyd; and in 1707, upon the decease of Jeremiah Clarke, he was appointed joint organist with his mentor, Dr. Blow. In 1709 he was elected organist of Westminster Abbey. This amiable man and excellent musician died in 1727, in the fiftieth year of his age. A very large number of Dr. Croft's compositions remain still in manuscript.
Cathedral chants of the XVI, XVII & XVIII centuries, ed. by Edward F. Rimbault, London: D. Almaine & Co., 1844
William Croft
John Darwall
1732 - 1789 Composer of "DARWALL" in The Worshiping Church John Darwall (b. Haughton, Staffordshire, England, 1731; d. Walsall, Staffordshire, England, 1789) The son of a pastor, he attended Manchester Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, England (1752-1756). He became the curate and later the vicar of St. Matthew's Parish Church in Walsall, where he remained until his death. Darwall was a poet and amateur musician. He composed a soprano tune and bass line for each of the 150 psalm versifications in the Tate and Brady New Version of the Psalms of David (l696). In an organ dedication speech in 1773 Darwall advocated singing the "Psalm tunes in quicker time than common [in order that] six verses might be sung in the same space of time that four generally are."
Bert Polman
John Darwall
