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Stretched On The Bed Of Grief

Author: Timothy Dwight Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 16 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Stretched on the bed of grief, In silence long I lay; For sore disease and wasting pain Had worn my strength away. 2 Just o’er the grave I hung; No pardon met my eyes; As blessings never greet the slain, And hope shall never rise. 3 Sweet mercy to my soul Revealed no charming ray; Before me rose a long, dark night, With no succeeding day. 4 I saw beyond the tomb, The awful Judge appear Prepared to scan with strict account My blessings wasted here. 5 Then O how vain appeared The joys beneath the sky! Like visions past, like flowers that blow, When wintry storms are nigh. 6 How mourned my sinking soul The Sabbath’s hours divine, The day of grace, that precious day; Consumed in sense and sin. 7 Then to the Lord I prayed, And raised a bitter cry— Hear me, O God, and save my soul, Lest I forever die. 8 He heard my humble cry; He saved my soul from death; To Him I’ll give my heart and hands, And consecrate my breath. 9 Ye sinners, fear the Lord, While yet ’tis called today: Soon will the awful voice of death Command your souls away. 10 Soon will the harvest close; The summer soon be o’er; And soon your injured, angry God Will hear your prayers no more Used With Tune: AYLESBURY Text Sources: The Psalms of David (New Haven, CT: Hudson & Goodwin, 1808)

Blest Are the Contrite Hearts

Author: Calvin Seerveld Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Comfort & Encouragement; Comfort & Encouragement; Covenant; Humility; Kingdom; Walk with God; Wisdom Scripture: Matthew 5:3-16 Used With Tune: WIRKSWORTH

It Is Not Death to Die

Author: Henri Abraham César Malan, 1787-1864; Albert Knapp, 1798-1864; George W. Bethune, 1805-1861 Appears in 178 hymnals Topics: The Life in Christ Death and Resurrection Used With Tune: AYLESBURY

I Saw, Beyond The Tomb

Author: Timothy Dwight Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 58 hymnals Lyrics: 1 I saw, beyond the tomb, The awful Judge appear, Prepared to scan with strict account, My blessings wasted here. 2 His wrath, like flaming fire, Burned to the lowest hell— And in that hopeless world of woe, He bade my spirit dwell. 3 Ye sinners, fear the Lord, While yet ’tis called today; Soon will the awful voice of death Command your souls away. 4 Soon will the harvest close— The summer soon be o’er— And soon, your injured, angry God Will hear your prayers no more. Used With Tune: WIRKSWORTH Text Sources: Village Hymns for Social Worship by Asahel Nettleton (Hartford, Conn.: Goodwin & Company (printer) 1824)

My few revolving years

Author: Benjamin Beddome Appears in 71 hymnals Used With Tune: AYLESBURY

O Lord, to Thee I cry

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 28 hymnals Topics: God Defender; God Our Strength; Rock Scripture: Psalm 28:1-2 Used With Tune: WIRKSWORTH Text Sources: United Presbyterian Book of Psalms, U.S.A., 1871

Ye servants of the Lord

Author: Philip Doddridge Appears in 455 hymnals Used With Tune: AYLESBURY

The Words of Love

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 77 hymnals First Line: I hear the words of love Topics: The Gospel Used With Tune: WIRKSWORTH