Hymns of the Apostolic Church

About this book

John Brownlie's English renderings of hymns associated with the church of the apostolic age, published in 1917. Working from early Greek Christian poetry and liturgical pieces, Brownlie presents the praise of the first generations of believers in verse form. The volume suits readers interested in how the earliest church confessed its faith in song.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Biographical and Historical 🔒
3. St. Clement of Alexandria 🔒
4. St. Gregory Nazianzen 🔒
5. Synesius 🔒
6. Justinian I. 🔒
7. St. Andrew of Crete 🔒
8. Sophronius 🔒
9. St. Anatolius 🔒
10. St. John of Damascus 🔒
11. St. Cosmas, the Melodist 🔒
12. St. Joseph of the Studium 🔒
13. Theoctistus 🔒
14. Metrophanes of Smyrna 🔒
15. Our highest thought of God is vain 🔒
16. The morning dawns; on gilded height 🔒
17. See, from the eastern hills, the morn 🔒
18. Light in the dark, before the dawn awaking 🔒
19. Awake! the morn is here 🔒
20. The crimson blush of morning glows 🔒
21. The morn awakes; from eastern hills 🔒
22. All glorious, see, the morning breaks 🔒
23. The darkness deepens in the skies 🔒
24. Cathismata of the Resurrection 🔒
25. O Lord of light, Thy beams display 🔒
26. The sun has reached his western goal 🔒
27. The longing eyes that sought the light 🔒
28. O Love supreme, exceeding broad 🔒
29. A band of herdsmen tarried late 🔒
30. They set the Cross upon a hill 🔒
31. Lo, He is dead! The suffering Christ is dead 🔒
32. Morning awakes, and morn awaking sings 🔒
33. Life from the dead the King Immortal gives 🔒
34. Light more glorious than the sun 🔒
35. The gate of life stands wide 🔒
36. Go, tell the world the Lord hath risen 🔒
37. The stone is rolled away 🔒
38. Glory to God, the promised day awakes 🔒
39. Light, ere the dawn in beauty broke 🔒
40. Watchman, from the height beholding 🔒
41. At earliest dawn the Lord awoke 🔒
42. Sleepers awake! the night's long reign is past 🔒
43. What wonder wakes a sleeping world 🔒
44. Glorious from the field of strife 🔒
45. The light that from the fire of love 🔒
46. Burdened with sin, more, Lord, than I can tell 🔒
47. He mounts to where the azure shines 🔒
48. See the King of kings ascending 🔒
49. Now let the gates be lifted up 🔒
50. Wrapt in wonder and amaze 🔒
51. A Love divine, exceeding broad 🔒
52. When Jesus at the feast reclined 🔒
53. O Spirit, Lord Almighty, Blest 🔒
54. O Holy Ghost, eternal Lord 🔒
55. Eternal Spirit, Lord of grace 🔒
56. O God of grace, Thou Spirit blest 🔒
57. O Lord of mercy, at Thy gate 🔒
58. When God for judgment sets His throne 🔒
59. Watchers, let your lights be burning 🔒
60. When the Lord to earth returning 🔒
61. Behold the victor host appear 🔒
62. The saints of God in yonder realm 🔒
63. The saints of God who sufferings bore 🔒
64. The chariots of the Lord are strong 🔒
65. Night and a storm, and hearts with sore affright 🔒
66. Darkly the tempest swept 🔒
67. Lord, give me sight for I am blind 🔒
68. O praise the wisdom of our God 🔒
69. He climbed the slopes of Olivet 🔒
70. Thou art my portion, saith my soul 🔒
71. My soul doth wait on God 🔒
72. The burden of my sin was great 🔒
73. Bowed with grief and anguish low 🔒
74. To praise is comely, O my soul 🔒
75. The Lord is very good to those 🔒
76. The pity of the Father 🔒
77. I have no other thought but this 🔒
78. Hear me, O Lord, in mercy hear 🔒
79. Open to me the gates of lovingkindness 🔒
80. When clouds obscure the rising sun 🔒
81. Thou art our Resurrection 🔒
82. Vain are the things of time 🔒
83. Lord, rest the child; cut off at morning hour 🔒
84. Bear to the font the child of grace 🔒
85. A Fount of mercy, Lord, Thou art 🔒
86. O God, most good, forget me not 🔒
87. Death's dark and moonless night 🔒
88. O Light of lights around my pathway shining 🔒
89. Appendix 🔒