4546. Now Is the Healing Time Decreed

1. Now is the healing time decreed
For sins of heart, of word or deed,
When we in humble fear record
The wrong that we have done the Lord.

2. Who, always merciful and good,
Has borne so long our wayward mood,
Nor cut us off unsparingly
In our so great iniquity.

3. Therefore with fasting and with prayer,
Our secret sorrow we declare;
With all good striving seek His face,
And lowly hearted plead for grace.

4. Cleanse us, O Lord, from every stain,
Help us the meed of praise to gain,
Till with the angels linked in love
Joyful we tread Thy courts above.

5. Father and Son and Spirit blest,
To Thee be every prayer addrest,
Who art in threefold name adored,
From age to age, the only Lord.

Text Information
First Line: Now is the healing time decreed
Title: Now Is the Healing Time Decreed
Latin Title: Ecce tempus idoneum
Author: Anonymous (before the 12th cent.)
Translator (from German): Thomas A. Lacey
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: The English Hymnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1906), number 67
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tune: JESU CORONA, Rouen church melody
Tune Information
Name: BABYLON'S STREAMS
Composer: Thomas Campion (1613)
Meter: LM
Incipit: 13455 43223 45544
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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