The Hymnal 1982 321
My God, thy table now is spread
- Tune
- rockingham
- Author(s)
- Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751; Isaac Watts, 1674-1748
- Composer(s)
- Edward Miller, 1731-1807; Samuel Webbe, 1740-1816
- Meter
- 8.8.8.8
- Tune Source(s)
- Second Supplement to Psalmody in Miniature, ca. 1780 (melody)
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1 My God, thy table now is spread, thy cup with love doth overflow; be all thy children thither led, and let them thy sweet mercies know.
2 O let thy table honored be, and furnished well with joyful guests: and may each soul salvation see, that here its sacred pledges tastes.
3 Drawn by thy quickening grace, O Lord, in countless numbers let them come and gather from their Father’s board the Bread that lives beyond the tomb.
4 Nor let thy spreading Gospel rest till through the world thy truth has run, till with this Bread all men be blest who see the light or feel the sun.