{"id":8867,"date":"2025-12-14T10:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/hymn-257-come-down-o-love-divine-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:15:57","slug":"hymn-257-come-down-o-love-divine-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/new-english-seventh-day-adventist-hymnal\/hymn-257-come-down-o-love-divine-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn 257 COME DOWN, O LOVE DIVINE Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\">New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal<\/h2>\n<h2>Hymn 257 COME DOWN, O LOVE DIVINE Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\nCome down, O Love divine, seek Thou this soul of mine<br \/>\nAnd visit it with Thine own ardor glowing;<br \/>\nO Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear,<br \/>\nAnd kindle it, Thy holy flame bestowing.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nO let it freely burn, till earthly passions turn<br \/>\nTo dust and ashes in its heat consuming;<br \/>\nAnd let Thy glorious light shine ever on my sight,<br \/>\nAnd clothe me round, the while my path illuming.<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nLet holy charity Mine outward vesture be,<br \/>\nAnd lowliness become my inner clothing;<br \/>\nTrue lowliness of heart which takes the humbler part,<br \/>\nAnd o&#8217;er its own shortcomings weeps with loathing.<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\nAnd so the yearning strong with which the soul will long<br \/>\nShall far outpass the power of human telling;<br \/>\nFor none can guess its grace, till Love create a place<br \/>\nWherein the Holy Spirit makes a dwelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal Hymn 257 COME DOWN, O LOVE DIVINE Lyrics &nbsp; 1 Come down, O Love divine, seek Thou this soul of mine And visit it with Thine own ardor glowing; O Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear, And kindle it, Thy holy flame bestowing. 2 O let it freely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-english-seventh-day-adventist-hymnal"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}