Text Results

Personalized Recommendations | Advanced Search

Showing 21 - 24 of 24Results Per Page: 10 20 50

Vain man, on foolish pleasures bent

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 32 hymnals Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man Lyrics: 1 Vain man, on foolish pleasures bent, Prepares for his own punishment; What pains, what loathsome maladies From luxury and lust arise! 2 The drunkard feels his vitals waste, Yet drowns his health to please his taste; Till all his active powers are lost, And fainting life draws near the dust. 3 The glutton groans and loathes to eat, His soul abhors delicious meat: Nature, with heavy loads opprest, Would yield to death to be releas'd. 4 Then how the frighted sinners fly To God for help with earnest cry! He hears their groans, prolongs their breath, And saves them from approaching death. 5 O may the sons of men record The wondrous goodness of the Lord! And let their thankful offerings prove How they adore their Maker's love.

Indulgent God! with pitying eye

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 26 hymnals 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.

Raise, thoughtless sinner, raise thine eye

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 69 hymnals 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.

Though I should seek to wash me clean

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 31 hymnals Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man Lyrics: 1 Though I should seek to wash me clean In waters of the driven snow, My soul would yet in spots retain, And sink in conscious guilt and wo: 2 The spirit, in his power divine, Would cast my vaunting soul to earth, Expose the foulness of its sin, And show the vileness of its worth. 3 Ah, not like erring man is God, That men to answer him should dare. Condemn'd, and into silence awed, They helpless stand before his bar. 4 There, must a Mediator plead, Who, God and man, may both embrace; With God, for man to intercede, And offer man the purchased grace. 5 And lo! the Son of God is slain To be this Mediator crown'd: In Him, my soul, be cleansed from stain, In Him thy righteousness be found. Scripture: Job 9:30-33