Text: | Lord, teach us how to pray aright |
Author: | James Montgomery |
Tune: | ST. JAMES |
Composer: | Raphael Courteville |
1 Lord, teach us how to pray aright
With reverence and with fear;
Though dust and ashes in Thy sight,
We may, we must draw near.
2 Burdened with guilt, convinced with sin,
In weakness, want, and woe,
Fightings without, and fears within,
Lord, whither shall we go?
3 God of all grace, we come to Thee
With broken, contrite hearts;
Give, what Thine eye delights to see,
Truth in the inward parts.
4 Give deep humility; the sense
Of godly sorrow give;
A strong desire, with confidence,
To hear Thy voice and live;
5 Faith in the only Sacrifice
That can for sin atone;
To cast our loves, to fix our eyes,
On Christ, on Christ alone;
6 Give these, and then Thy will be done;
Thus strengthened with all might,
We, through Thy Spirit and Thy Son,
Shall pray, and pray aright.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Lord, teach us how to pray aright |
Author: | James Montgomery (1818) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Notes: | Public Domain. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. JAMES |
Composer: | Raphael Courteville (1697) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Key: | A Major |
Notes: | Public Domain. |