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Text:Come, my soul, and let us try
Tune:SYMPATHY

47. Come, my soul, and let us try

1. Come, my soul, and let us try
For a little season,
Every burden to lay by;
Come, and let us reason.
What is this that casts thee down?
Who are they that grieve you?
Speak, and let the worst be known;
Speaking may relieve you.

2. Christ by faith sometimes I see,
Then it doth relieve me;
But my sins return again
Those are they that grieve me;
Troubled like the restless sea,
Feeble, faint, and fearful:
Plunged in sins, a sore disease,
How can I be cheerful?

3. Think on what your Savior bore
In the gloomy garden,
Sweating blood from every pore,
To procure thy pardon;
See him stretched upon the wood,
Bleeding, groaning, crying!
Suffering all the wrath of God,
Groaning, gasping, dying!

Text Information
First Line: Come, my soul, and let us try
Meter: 7. 7.
Publication Date: 1821
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: SYMPATHY
Meter: 7. 7.
Incipit: 11321 553
Key: F Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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