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Come, God Creator, Holy Ghost

Words and music by Charlemagne & Rhabanus Maurus & Gregory the Great & Ambrose of Milan · tr. Martin Luther & Leonard Woolsey Bacon · 1524

Key of C · 130 BPM · 4/4 · Aspiration,Conversion,Education · Jn 14:16

Verse 1

Come, God Creator, Holy Ghost, And visit Thou these souls of men;
Fill them with graces, as Thou dost, Thy creatures make pure again.

Verse 2

For Comforter Thy name we call. Sweet gift of God most high above,
A holy unction to us all O Fount of life, Fire of love.

Verse 3

Our minds illumine and refresh, Deep in our hearts let love burn bright;
Thou know'st the weakness of our flesh; And strengthen us with Thy might.

Verse 4

Thou with Thy wondrous sev'nfold gifts The finger art of God's right hand;
The Father's Word Thou sendest swift On tongues of fire to each land.

Verse 5

Drive far from us our wily foe; Grant us Thy blesséd peace within,
That in Thy footsteps we may go, And shun the dark ways of sin.

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