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Lord, teach us how to pray aright

Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 225 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lord, teach us how to pray aright with reverence and with fear: though dust and ashes in Your sight, we may, we must draw near. 2 We perish if we cease from prayer: O grant us power to pray; and when to meet You we prepare, Lord, meet us by the way. 3 God of all grace, we bring to You a broken contrite heart; give what Your eye delights to view — truth in the inward part; 4 Faith in the only sacrifice that can for sin atone; to place our hopes, to fix our eyes, on Christ, and Christ alone. 5 Patience to watch and weep and wait, whatever You may send; courage that will not hesitate to trust You to the end. 6 Give these, and then Your will be done; thus, strengthened with all might, we, through Your Spirit and Your Son, shall pray, and pray aright. Topics: The Temple Prayer Used With Tune: BANGOR

Lord, when we bend before thy throne

Author: Rev. J. D. Carlyle Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 329 hymnals Topics: Lent; Prayer Used With Tune: BANGOR

Creator of the Countless Stars

Author: Thomas Tiplady Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Tune: BANGOR

Alas, My Aching Heart

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Alas, my aching heart! Lyrics: 1 Alas, my aching heart! Here the keen torment lies; It racks my waking hours with smart, And frights my slumbering eyes. 2 Guilt will be hid no more, My griefs take vent apace, The crimes that blot my conscience o’er Flush crimson in my face. 3 My sorrows like a flood Impatient of restraint Into Thy bosom, O my God, Pour out a long complaint. 4 This impious heart of mine Could once defy the Lord, Could rush with violence on to sin In presence of Thy sword. 5 As often have I stood A rebel to the skies, The calls, the tenders of a God, And mercy’s loudest cries. 6 He offers all His grace, And all His heaven to me; Offers! But ’tis to senseless brass That can nor feel nor see. 7 Jesus the Savior stands To court me from above, And looks and spreads His wounded hands, And shows the prints of love. 8 But I, a stupid fool, How long have I withstood The blessings purchased with His soul, And paid for all in blood? 9 The heav’nly Dove came down And tendered me His wings, To mount me upward to a crown And bright immortal things. 10 Lord, I’m ashamed to say That I refused Thy Dove, And sent Thy Spirit grieved away To His own realms of love. 11 Nor all Thine heav’nly charms, Nor Thy revenging hand Could force me to lay down my arms, And bow to Thy command. 12 Lord, ’tis against Thy face My sins like arrows rise, And yet, and yet, O matchless grace Thy thunder silent lies. 13 O shall I never feel The meltings of Thy love? Am I of such hell-hardened steel That mercy cannot move? 14 Now for one powerful glance Dear Savior, from Thy face! This rebel heart no more withstands, But sinks beneath Thy grace. 15 O’ercome by dying love I fall, And at Thy cross I lie; I throw my flesh, my soul, my all, And weep, and love, and die. 16 Rise, says the Prince of mercy, rise; With joy and pity in His eyes: “Rise and behold My wounded veins; Here flows the blood to wash thy stains. 17 See, My great Father’s reconciled: He said, and lo, the Father smiled; The joyful cherubs clapped their wings, And sounded grace on all their strings. Used With Tune: BANGOR Text Sources: Horae Lyricae, 1706-09, Book 1

Come, Spirit, come; for here below

Author: H. M. Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: BANGOR

God of my life, look gently down

Author: Watts Appears in 99 hymnals Used With Tune: BANGOR

Why Doth the Lord Stand Off So Far?

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 49 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Why doth the Lord stand off so far? And why conceal His face, When great calamities appear, And times of deep distress? 2. Lord, shall the wicked still deride Thy justice and Thy power? Shall they advance their heads in pride, And still Thy saints devour? 3. They put Thy judgments from their sight, And then insult the poor; They boast in their exalted height, That they shall fall no more. 4. Arise, O God, lift up Thine hand, Attend our humble cry; No enemy shall dare to stand When God ascends on high. 5. Why do the men of malice rage, And say, with foolish pride, The God of Heav’n will ne’er engage To fight on Zion’s side? 6. But Thou forever art our Lord; And powerful is Thine hand, As when the heathens felt Thy sword, And perished from Thy land. 7. Thou wilt prepare our hearts to pray, And cause Thine ear to hear; He hearkens what His children say, And puts the world in fear. 8. Proud tyrants shall no more oppress, No more despise the just; And mighty sinners shall confess They are but earth and dust. Used With Tune: BANGOR Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-1709