Let earth and heaven agree (Wesley) - arr. for piano by Peter Duckworth скачать в хорошем качестве

Let earth and heaven agree (Wesley) - arr. for piano by Peter Duckworth

Like 'Jesus, the name high over all', this fine hymn by Charles Wesley centres on the power and beauty in that name which is above every name. The name of Jesus is so powerful that it raises the dead, opens blind eyes, and sets us free from both the guilt and the power of sin. In fact, John's gospel tells us that it was the original creative power in the universe. How wonderful then that God should give us this name the means of our salvation and rescue from death. As Peter put it in Acts 4: "There is salvation in no other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." This hymn is also a reminder that it is not enough to have an intellectual grasp of the Cross; our whole being must be engaged. As it says in the fourth verse, "See there my Lord upon the tree! I hear, I feel he died for me." It was this reality that John Wesley lacked in the early phase of his religious life, when he went to America as a missionary but found that his heart was cold and dead, and his ministry was fruitless. He finally reached crisis point on May 24th, 1738 when, at a meeting in Aldersgate Street in the City of London, he heard someone read from Luther's Preface to the Book of Romans, and "... I felt my heart strangely warmed, I felt that I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for my salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death." This was the crux of his life up to that point, and what followed changed the face of Britain. On a more personal note, this hymn has long been a favourite of mine, but was omitted from this collection until overnight on 27 September 2020, when I had a vivid dream in which a neighbour and I were singing it at the top of our voices to a secular gathering. At which point it seemed like a good time to start recording! The tune, 'Millennium', is by an unknown composer.