Matthew Bridges: Hymns of the Heart
Transcriptions from copies of the first and second editions (1848 and 1851) in the British Library, shelf marks 3434.a.13 (1848) and 3437.aaa.4 (1851):
( Preface to1st edition, repeated in 2nd edn )
It has occured to the writer, as it may have done to others, that a small and cheap collection of such pieces as the following, might not be unacceptable to pious Catholics. An opportunity, in any event, is thus afforded himself, of publicly expressing his poignant and unmitigated regret, for having ever used his feeble pen against that holy and Apostolic Church, which by divine grace he has lately been enabled to join, after nearly eight years of labour spent in investigating her claims, and a desire throughout the entire period, that he might be mercifully guided aright by the Spirit of God into the fulness of divine truth.
These hymns and paraphrases are originals, excepting the six last, which are borrowed, and adapted to the object in view, with requisite additions or alterations. There is one amongst the latter entitled Crux Sublata, which will perhaps come home to the breast of many an Anglican convert; whose heart, racked and torn with sorrows peculiarly its own, has finally been brought into the right way by the pierced hand of an adorable Saviour, -- which, in conducting His faithful people from the cross to the crown, will at last wipe off all tears from all faces.
Five original pieces have been added to the present Reprint. The lines on the late lamented Doctor Gentili have already appeared in the pages of The Rambler.
[ List of Contents, 2nd edition 1851 (the actual Contents list gives the hymn titles and page numbers only, not the first lines reproduced here. The individual hymns are not numbered.) ]
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Title First line 9 The Address of a Christian to his soul at sunrise
Soil not thy plumage, gentle dove
12 Latus Salvatoris
There is an everlasting Home
14
Meditation
Saviour, with secret sighs to Thee
18 In caelo quies!
There is a world as yet to come
22 Confirmation
My God, accept my heart this day
24 Ecce Agnus Dei
Behold the Lamb! Oh! Thou for sinners slain
28 Christmas
Infant Jesus! Lead me to Thy peaceful manger
34 Anima Christi
Soul of Jesus, -- once for me
38 Dona nobis pacem
Blessed Lamb -- on Calvary's mountain
40 Praeterit figura mundi
The world is all illusion
42 Ascension
Rise, - glorious Conqueror, rise
46 Veni Sancte Spiritus
Oh! for those solitary hours
49
- Lacrymatus est Jesus
- John xi. 35.
Bright were the mornings first impearl'd
51 Affliction - Malach. iii. 3.
Refiner of this fallen heart
53 Communion in the Blessed and adorable Eucharist
Lord! to Thine altar let me go
55 Incense - Apocalypse, viii. 3,4
- Wave the sweet censer, - wave
- To Him, who came to save
58 In Capite Ejus [ etc. ]
62 Ave Maria
Hail, holy Virgin! Mary -- Hail!
66 Rosa Mystica
Rose of the Cross, thou mystic flower!
69 Turris Eburnea
Daughter of David, ever fair
71 Foedera arca
Holy of holies! fend the veil
74 Janua Coeli
Gate of immortal bliss
77 Stella Matutina!
Star of the Morning, like an eye
79 Domus Aurea
Light! Light! Infinite Light!
82 All Saints!
Head of the Hosts in glory!
86 St Francis Xavier
Lo! on the slope of yonder shore
91 LINES on the sudden death of the late Doctor Gentili!
- Wail for the mighty dead, --
- A saint has left the land;
95 Dies Irae etc.
Lo! He comes with clouds descending [ Note (a) ]
100 Surrender
O Lord, Thy heavenly grace impart
102 Crux Sublata etc.
Jesu, I my cross have taken [Note (b) ]
106 Peccator ad Christum
My spirit longs for Thee [Note (c)]
108 Christum ad Peccator
Cheer up, desponding soul [Note (c)]
110 Sub Cruce Christi
Sweet the moments, rich in blessing [ Note (d) ]
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