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Text: | Be It According to Thy Word |
Author: | Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 |
Tune: | ARIEL |
Arranger: | Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 |
1 Be it according to Thy word,
Merciful unto all, O Lord.
Be merciful to me:
Avert the wrath I deprecate,
Nor crush me with Thy judgments weight,
Who would return to Thee,
Who would return to Thee.
2 Thy wrath shall not forever last,
If pained at my pollutions past,
I groan to be made clean:
And lo, I now with grief confess
My inward parts are wickedness.
And all my life is sin,
And all my life is sin.
3 I have mine idols multiplied,
Before the shrine of self and pride
With vile devotion fell;
Followed where'er the tempter led,
And by each beastly, devilish deed
Debased my soul to hell,
Debased my soul to hell.
4 My heart was hardened from Thy fear,
Thy warning voice I would not hear.
But cast Thy words behind:
Yet for my Saviour's sake forgive;
And in Thy mercy's arms receive
Our whole apostate kind,
Our whole apostate kind.
AMEN.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Be it according to Thy word |
Title: | Be It According to Thy Word |
Author: | Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 |
Meter: | 8 8 6 D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Topic: | The Call to Salvation |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ARIEL |
Arranger: | Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 |
Meter: | 8 8 6 D |
Key: | Dâ™ Major |