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The End of the World

Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and Prayers, for Public and Private Worship #58 (1845) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man First Line: Why should this earth delight us so? Lyrics: 1 Why should this earth delight us so? Why should we fix our eyes On these low grounds where sorrows grow, And every pleasure dies ? 2 While time his sharpest teeth prepares, Our comforts to devour, There is a land above the stars, And joys above his power. 3 Nature shall be dissolv'd and die, The sun must end his race, The earth and sea for ever fly Before the Savior's face. 4 When will that glorious morning rise? When the last trumpet sound, And call the nations to the skies, From underneath the ground? Languages: English

The Vanity of earthly Things

Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and Prayers, for Public and Private Worship #59 (1845) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man First Line: What are possessions, fame, and power Lyrics: 1 What are possessions, fame, and power The boasted splendour of the great? What gold, which dazzled eyes adore, And seek with endless toils and sweat? 2 Express their charms, declare their use, That we their merits may descry; Tell us what good they can produce, Or what important wants supply. 3 If, wounded with the sense of sin, To them for pardon we should pray, Will they restore our peace within, And wash our guilty stains away? 4 Can they celestial life inspire, Nature with power divine renew, With pure and sacred transports fire Our bosom, and our lusts subdue? 5 When with the pangs of death we strive, And yield all comforts here for lost, Will they support us, will they give Kind succor, when we need it most? 6 When at th'Almighty's awful bar To hear our final doom we stand, Can they incline the Judge to spare, Or wrest the vengeance from his hand? 7 Can they protect us from despair, From the dark reign of death and hell, Crown us with bliss, and throne us where The just, in joys immortal, dwell? 8 Sinners, your idols we despise, If these reliefs they cannot grant; Why should we such delusions prize, And pine in everlasting want? Languages: English

How long shall dreams of creature-bliss

Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and Prayers, for Public and Private Worship #60 (1845) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man Lyrics: 1 How long shall dreams of creature-bliss Our flatt'ring hopes employ, And mock our fond deluded eyes With visionary joy? 2 How wretched they, that leave the Lord, And from his word withdraw, That lose his gospel from their sight And wander from his law! 3 O thou eternal spring of good, Whence living waters flow! Let not our thirsty erring souls To broken cisterns go. 4 Like characters inscrib'd in dust, Are sinners borne away; And all the treasures they can boast, The portion of a day. Languages: English

Indulgent God! with pitying eye

Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and Prayers, for Public and Private Worship #61 (1845) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man Lyrics: 1 Indulgent God! with pitying eyes The sons of men survey. Alas! how thoughtless mortals sport In sin's destructive way! 2 Ten thousand dangers lurk around, To bear them to the tomb: Each passing hour may place them where, Repentance cannot come. 3 Reclaim, O Lord! their wand'ring minds, Amus'd with airy dreams; That heav'nly wisdom may dispel Their visionary schemes. 4 Guide and direct them by word, Their dang'rous state to see; That they may seek and find the path, That leads to heav'n and thee. Languages: English

Original sin; or, the first and second Adam

Hymnal: Psalms and Hymns, for the Use of the German Reformed Church, in the United States of America. (2nd ed.) #62 (1834) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man First Line: Adam our father and our head

Raise, thoughtless sinner, raise thine eye

Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and Prayers, for Public and Private Worship #62 (1845) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man Lyrics: 1 Raise, thoughtless sinner, raise thine eye; Behold God's balance lifted high; There shall his justice be display'd, And there thy hope and life be weigh'd. 2 See in one scale his perfect law; Mark with what force its precepts draw; Would'st thou the awful test sustain, Thy works how light! thy thoughts how vain! 3 Great God! exert thy pow'r to save; Deep on the heart this truth engrave; Disperse the mist from sinners' eyes, And make the wretched triflers wise. 4 O let them seize the present day, Nor risk salvation by delay; And, while they tremble, let them flee, And find their help, their life, in thee. Languages: English

We are corrupt and incapable of doing good

Hymnal: Psalms and Hymns, for the Use of the German Reformed Church, in the United States of America. (2nd ed.) #64 (1834) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man First Line: Sin, like a venomous disease

Bless'd with the joys of innocence

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #89 (1828) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man Lyrics: 1 Bless'd with the joys of innocence, Adam, our father, stood, Till he debas'd his soul to sense, And ate th' unlawful food. 2 Now we are born a sensual race, To sinful joys inclin'd; Reason has lost its native place, And flesh enslaves the mind. 3 While flesh and sense and passion reigns, Sin is the sweetest good; We fancy music in our chains, And so forget the load. 4 Great God, renew our ruin'd frame, Our broken powers restore, Inspire us with a heavenly flame, And flesh shall reign no more. 5 Eternal Spirit, write thy law Upon our inward parts, And let the second Adam draw His image on our hearts.

Sin has a thousand treacherous arts

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #91 (1828) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man Lyrics: 1 Sin has a thousand treacherous arts To practise on the mind; With flattering looks she tempts our hearts, But leaves a sting behind. 2 With names of virtue she deceives The aged and the young; And while the heedless wretch believes, She makes his fetters strong. 3 She pleads for all the joys she brings, And gives a fair pretence; But cheats the soul of heavenly things, And chains it down to sense. 4 So on a tree divinely fair Grew the forbidden food; Our mother took the poison there, And tainted all her blood.

Dead be my heart to all below

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #93 (1828) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man Lyrics: 1 Dead be my heart to all below, To mortal joys and mortal cares; To sensual bliss that charms us so, Be dark, mine eyes, and deaf my ears. 2 Lord, I renounce my carnal taste Of the fair fruit that sinners prize; Their paradise shall never waste One thought of mine, but to despise. 3 All earthly joy are overweigh'd With mountains of vexatious care; And where's the sweet that is not laid A bait to some destructive snare? 4 Begone, for ever, mortal things! Thou mighty mole-hill, earth, farewell Angels aspire of lofty wings, And leave the globe for ants to dwell. 5 Come, heaven, and fill my vast desires, My soul pursues the sovereign good; She was all made of heavenly fires, Nor can she live on meaner food.