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St. Luke the Evangelist.

Almighty God, Who unto man hast given gifts manifold; to him hast Thou revealed secrets of Thy deep love in flower and field, in rock and cave, in earth, and best, in Heaven; so hast Thou granted the Physician’s lore, that men, when sick, might learn to love Thee more. Thou to sick sinners once didst send to heal the blest Physician Luke, whose gospel praise was as Evangelist his voice to raise, to sinners sick to death glad to reveal the healing knowledge of his risen Lord; so into sin’s deathwounds lifebalm he poured: Led the faint, weary soul, unto its rest; the fevered thirst he slaked in that deep fount that flowed for sinners on dark Calvary’s Mount, when there they madly crucified the Blest. O wondrous death, that healing might to give, that dying sinners aye might look and live! Let not Thy servant Luke have toiled in vain, or ministered for nought to souls’ disease, but from his wholesome med’cine may it please Thy precious love that we full blessing gain, that all the sickness of our souls be healed, and our sure cure in Jesus be revealed!

1 Almighty God, Who unto man hast given
gifts manifold; to him hast Thou revealed
secrets of Thy deep love in flower and field,
in rock and cave, in earth, and best, in Heaven;
so hast Thou granted the Physician’s lore,
that men, when sick, might learn to love Thee more.
2 Thou to sick sinners once didst send to heal
the blest Physician Luke, whose gospel praise
was as Evangelist his voice to raise,
to sinners sick to death glad to reveal
the healing knowledge of his risen Lord;
so into sin’s deathwounds lifebalm he poured:
3 Led the faint, weary soul, unto its rest;
the fevered thirst he slaked in that deep fount
that flowed for sinners on dark Calvary’s Mount,
when there they madly crucified the Blest.
O wondrous death, that healing might to give,
that dying sinners aye might look and live!
4 Let not Thy servant Luke have toiled in vain,
or ministered for nought to souls’ disease,
but from his wholesome med’cine may it please
Thy precious love that we full blessing gain,
that all the sickness of our souls be healed,
and our sure cure in Jesus be revealed!

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Text attr. Eliza Humphreys
Tune Yorkshire
John Wainwright (1750)

St. Luke the Evangelist.

Almighty God, who calledst Luke the Physician, whose praise is in the Gospel, to be an Evangelist, and Physician of the soul; may it please thee, that, by the wholesome medicines of the doctrine delivered by him, all the diseases of our souls may be healed; through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.