Text: | The Penitent's Plea |
Author: | H. H. B. |
Tune: | [Savior, hear me, while before Thy feet] |
Composer: | Commander Booth |
1 Savior, hear me, while before Thy feet
I the record of my sins repeat,
Stain’d with guilt, myself abhorring,
Fill’d with grief, my soul outpouring;
Canst Thou still in mercy think of me,
Stoop to set my shackled spirit free?
Raise my sinking heart, and bid me be
Thy child once more!
Refrain:
Grace there is my every debt to pay,
Blood to wash my every sin away,
Pow’r to keep me sinless day by day,
For me, for me!
2 Back with all the guilt my spirit bears,
Past the haunting memories of years,
Self and shame and fear despising,
Foes and taunting fiends surprising,
Savior, to Thy cross I press my way,
And a broken heart before it lay;
Ere I leave, oh, let me hear Thee say,
It shall be thine! [Refrain]
3 Yet, why should I fear, hast Thou not died
That no seeking soul should be denied?
To that heart its sins confessing,
Can’st Thou fail to give a blessing?
By the love and pity Thou hast shown,
By the blood that did for me atone,
Boldly will I kneel before Thy throne,
A pleading soul. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Savior, hear me, while before Thy feet |
Title: | The Penitent's Plea |
Author: | H. H. B. |
Refrain First Line: | Grace there is my every debt to pay |
Publication Date: | 1894 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [Savior, hear me, while before Thy feet] |
Composer: | Commander Booth |