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Let Sinners Take Their Course

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 163 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Let sinners take their course, And choose the road to death; But in the worship of my God I’ll spend my daily breath. 2. My thoughts address His throne When morning brings the light; I’ll seek His blessing every noon, And pay my vows at night. 3. Thou wilt regard my cries, O my eternal God, While sinners perish in surprise Beneath Thine angry rod. 4. Because they dwell at ease, And no sad changes feel, They neither fear nor trust Thy name, Nor learn to do Thy will. 5. But I with all my cares Will lean upon the Lord: I’ll cast my burdens on His arm, And rest upon His Word. 6. His arm shall well sustain The children of His love; The ground on which their safety stands, No earthly power can move. Used With Tune: ABER Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

Shall Wisdom Cry Aloud?

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 57 hymnals First Line: Shall Wisdom cry aloud Lyrics: 1. Shall Wisdom cry aloud, And not her speech be heard? The voice of God’s eternal Word, Deserves it no regard? 2. “I was His chief delight, His everlasting Son, Before the first of all His works, Creation, was begun. 3. “Before the flying clouds, Before the solid land, Before the fields, before the floods, I dwelt at His right hand. 4. “When He adorned the skies, And built them, I was there, To order where the sun should rise, And marshal every star. 5. “When He poured out the sea, And spread the flowing deep, I gave the flood a firm decree In its own bounds to keep. 6. “Upon the empty air The earth was balanced well: With joy I saw the mansion where The sons of men should dwell. 7. “My busy thoughts at first On their salvation ran, Ere sin was born, or Adam’s dust Was fashioned to a man. 8. Then come, receive My grace, Ye children, and be wise; Happy the man that keeps My ways; The man that shuns them dies. Used With Tune: ABER Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707, Book I, number 92

And Will The God of Grace

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 59 hymnals Lyrics: 1. And will the God of grace Perpetual silence keep? The God of justice hold His peace, And let His vengeance sleep? 2. Behold, what cursèd snares The men of mischief spread! The men that hate thy saints and Thee Lift up their threatening head. 3. Against Thy hidden ones Their counsels they employ And malice, with her watchful eye, Pursues them to destroy. 4. The noble and the base Into Thy pastures leap; The lion and the stupid ass Conspire to vex Thy sheep. 5. Come, let us join, they cry, To root them from the ground, Till not the name of saints remain, Nor memory shall be found. 6. Awake, almighty God, And call Thy wrath to mind; Give them like forests to the fire, Or stubble to the wind. 7. Convince their madness, Lord, And make them seek Thy name; Or else their stubborn rage confound, That they may die in shame. 8. Then shall the nations know That glorious, dreadful word, Jehovah is Thy name alone, And Thou the sovereign Lord. Used With Tune: ABER Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

An Awful Day Draws Near

Author: Mrs. V. G. Ramsey Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 An awful day draws near; A storm of wrath must fall: O, how shall those I love appear Before the Judge of all! 2 The path of death they choose; And boldly walk therein; My soul with deepest sorrow views Their danger and their sin. 3 Careless they press the brink Of infinite despair; Can I endure to see them sink In hopeless ruin there? 4 I pour unceasing tears; By day and night I cry; Almighty Father, hear my prayers, Nor let these sinners die. Used With Tune: ABER Text Sources: The Psalmody (Dover, NH: Freewill Baptist Printing Establishment, 1853)

It is no untried way

Author: Robert M. Offord Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Christian Experience Discipline and Sorrow Used With Tune: ABER

In Hunger, Watch, And Prayer

Author: Francis Pott Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 In hunger, watch, and prayer, These forty days were passed By Thee, O Jesu; and Thy love Doth sanctify our fast. 2 Through fleshly lusts indulged, Man lost his first estate; Thou wouldst restore by leading us Our flesh to subjugate. 3 Be with Thy Church, O Lord; Our self-denials bless; Accept the tears Thy children shed O’er all their frowardness. 4 Forgive, most gracious Lord, The follies we deplore, Prevent us with Thy guiding hand That we may sin no more. 5 So do Thou in our souls The power of sin destroy; And make us fit to worship Thee With Easter’s holy joy. Used With Tune: ABER Text Sources: Unknown author, pre-12th century; Tr.: Church Hymns (London, Society for Promoting Knowledge)

I Lift My Soul to God

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 114 hymnals Lyrics: 1. I lift my soul to God, My trust is in His name: Let not my foes that seek my blood Still triumph in my shame. 2. Sin, and the powers of hell, Persuade me to despair: Lord, make me know Thy covenant well, That I may ’scape the snare. 3. From the first dawning light Till the dark evening rise, For Thy salvation, Lord, I wait With ever longing eyes. 4. Remember all Thy grace, And lead me in Thy truth; Forgive the sins of riper days, And follies of my youth. 5. The Lord is just and kind, The meek shall learn His ways, And every humble sinner find The methods of His grace. 6. For His own goodness’ sake He saves my soul from shame: He pardons, though my guilt be great, Through my redeemer’s name. Used With Tune: ABER Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

More Marred Than Any Man's

Author: William Russell Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1. More marred than any man’s The Savior’s visage see; Was ever sorrow like to His, Endured on Calvary! 2. Oh, hear that piercing cry! What can its meaning be? My God! my God! oh! why hast Thou In wrath forsaken Me? 3. Oh ’twas because our sins On Him by God were laid; He who Himself had never sinned For sinners, sin was made. 4. Thus sin He put away By His one sacrifice Then, Conqueror o’er death and hell, He mounted to the skies. 5. Therefore let all men know That God is satisfied; And sinners all who Jesus trust Through Him are justified. Used With Tune: ABER

In Expectation Sweet

Author: Joseph Swain Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 80 hymnals Lyrics: 1 In expectation sweet We’ll wait, and sing, and pray, Till Christ’s triumphal car we meet, And see an endless day. 2 He comes! He comes! behold His presence melts the sky! Celestial armies, clad in gold, Around His chariot fly. 3 He comes! the Conqueror comes! Death falls beneath His sword; The joyful prisoners burst the tombs, And rise to meet their Lord! 4 The trumpet sounds, "Awake! Ye dead, to judgment come!" The pillars of creation shake While hell receives her doom. 5 Thrice happy morn for those Who love the ways of peace; No night of sorrow e’er shall close, Or shade, their perfect bliss. Used With Tune: ABER Text Sources: Walworth Hymns (London: J. Matthews, 1792)

Let Wanton Men Beware

Author: John Berridge Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Let wanton men beware, How Jesus they despise; In awful pomp He will appear, Descending from the skies! 2 His trumpet will proclaim The Judge, the Judge is near! And earth will melt with fervent flame And seas dry up with fear! 3 A shouting heavenly host Around Him will be ranged; The dead will hear and start up first And then the quick be changed. 4 Ye wise and favored few, Who lodge at mercy’s gate, Oh, keep the Savior well in view, And for His coming wait. 5 And hear, ye foolish men, Who talk with impious breath, And glory in a life unclean: Such mirth will end in death. 6 Your bitter sad remorse No tongue can truly tell, If Jesus once pronounce His curse, And sink you down to hell. 7 Oh, thoughtless men, be wise, Before it be too late, From sleep awake, from sin arise, And knock at mercy’s gate. Used With Tune: ABER Text Sources: Sion's Songs (London: Vallance & Conder, 1785)