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Bring Them In

Author: Alexcenah Thomas Appears in 377 hymnals Topics: Backsliding First Line: Hark! 'tis the Shepherd's voice I hear Refrain First Line: Bring them in, bring them in Lyrics: 1 Hark! 'tis the Shepherd's voice I hear, Out in the desert dark and drear, Calling the sheep who've gone astray Far from the Shepherd's fold away. Refrain: Bring them in, bring them in, Bring them in from the fields of sin; Bring them in, bring them in, Bring the wand'ring ones to Jesus. 2 Who'll go and help this Shepherd kind, Help him the wand'ring ones to find? Who'll bring the lost ones to the fold, Where they'll be sheltered from the cold? [Refrain] 3 Out in the desert hear their cry, Out on the mountains wild and high; Hark! 'tis the Master speaks to thee, "Go find my sheep where'er they be." [Refrain] Amen. Scripture: Matthew 18:11 Used With Tune: [Hark! 'tis the Shepherd's voice I hear]

Psalm 51

Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 789 hymnals Topics: Backsliding First Line: Show pity, Lord! O Lord! forgive Lyrics: 1 Show pity, Lord! O Lord! forgive; Let a repenting rebel live; Are not thy mercies large and free? May not a sinner trust in thee? 2 Oh, wash my soul from every sin, And make my guilty conscience clean; Here on my heart the burden lies, And past offences pain mine eyes. 3 My lips with shame my sins confess, Against thy law, against thy grace: Lord! should thy judgments grow severe, I am condemned, but thou art clear. 4 Should sudden vengeance seize my breath, I must pronounce thee just in death; And if my soul were sent to hell, Thy righteous law approves it well. 5 Yet save a trembling sinner, Lord! Whose hope still hovering round thy word, Would light on some sweet promise there, Some sure support against despair. Scripture: Psalm 51:17 Used With Tune: WOODWORTH

How shall a lost sinner in pain

Author: C. Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 61 hymnals Topics: Repentance and Conversion - Penitence and Trust Prayer for restoration from backsliding

Israel's Rebellion and Punsihment; or, The Sins and Chastisements of GOD's People

Appears in 27 hymnals Topics: Backsliding soul pardoned First Line: O what a stiff rebellious House Lyrics: 1 O what a stiff rebellious House Was Jacob's ancient Race! False to their own most solemn Vows, And to their Maker's Grace. 2 They broke the Cov'nant of his Love, And did his Laws despise; Forgot the Works he wrought, to prove His Pow'r before their Eyes. 3 They saw the Plagues on Egypt light From his revenging Hand; What dreadful Tokens of his Might Spread o'er the stubborn Land. 4 They saw him cleave the mighty Sea, And march'd in Safety through, With watry walls to guard their Way, 'Till they had 'scaped the foe. 5 A wond'rous Pillar mark'd the Road, Compos'd of Shade and Light; By day it prov'd a shelt'ring cloud, A leading Fire by Night. 6 He from the rock their Thirst supply'd The gushing Waters fell, And ran in Rivers by their Side, A constant Miracle. 7 Yet they provok'd the Lord most High, And dar'd distrust his Hand: "Can he with Bread our Host supply "Amidst this desart Land?" 8 The Lord with Indignation heard, And caus'd his Wrath to flame; His Terrors ever stand prepar'd To vindicate his Name.

I was a wand'ring sheep

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 500 hymnals Topics: Backsliding Lyrics: 1 I was a wand'ring sheep, I did not love the fold; I did not love my Shepherd's voice, I would not be controlled. I was a wayward child, I did not love my home; I did not love my Father's voice, I loved afar to roam. 2 The Shepherd sought his sheep, The Father sought his child; They followed me o'er vale and hill, O'er deserts waste and wild: They found me nigh to death, Famished and faint and lone; They bound me with the bands of love, They saved the wand'ring one. 3 Jesus my Shepherd is; 'Twas he that loved my soul, 'Twas he that washed me in his blood, 'Twas he that made me whole; 'Twas he that sought the lost, That found the wand'ring sheep, 'Twas he that brought me to the fold, 'Tis he that still doth keep. 4 I was a wand'ring sheep, I would not be controlled; But now I love my Shepherd's voice, I love, I love the fold. I was a wayward child, I once preferred to roam; But now I love my Father's voice, I love, I love his home. Amen. Scripture: Isaiah 53:6 Used With Tune: LEBANON

In the Hour of Trial

Author: James Montgomery (1771-1854) Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 505 hymnals Topics: Warning Message Backsliding, Apostasy Scripture: Job 23:10 Used With Tune: PENITENCE

The backslider's prayer

Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.8.7.6 Appears in 302 hymnals Topics: Backslider's Prayer First Line: Jesus, let thy pitying eye Lyrics: 1 Jesus, let thy pitying eye Call back a wand'ring sheep; False to thee, like Peter, I Would fain like Peter, weep; Let me be by grace restor'd, On me be all its freeness shewn; Turn and look upon me, LORD, And break my heart of stone. 2 Saviour prince, enthron'd above, Repentance to impart, Give me thro' thy dying love, The humble contrite heart; Give, what I have long implor'd, A portion of thy grief unknown; Turn and look upon me, LORD, And break my heart of stone. 3 See me, Saviour, from above, Nor suffer me to die; Life, and happiness, and love, Drop from thy gracious eye; Speak the reconciling word And let thy mercy melt me down; Turn and look upon me, LORD, And break my heart of stone. 4 Look as when thy pitying eye, Was clos'd that we might live; Father (at the point to die, My Saviour gasp'd) "Forgive!" Surely with that dying word, He turns, and looks, and cries, "'tis done!" O my loving, bleeding LORD< Thou breaks my heart of stone. Text Sources: Rippon's Coll.

Psalm 25 Part 3

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 117 hymnals Topics: Backsliding soul in distress and desertion; Distress of soul, or backsliding and desertion First Line: Mine eyes and my desire Lyrics: Mine eyes and my desire Are ever to the Lord; I love to plead his promises, And rest upon his word. Turn, turn thee to my soul, Bring thy salvation near; When will thy hand release my feet Out of the deadly snare? When shall the sovereign grace Of my forgiving God Restore me from those dangerous ways My wand'ring feet have trod? The tumult of my thoughts Doth but enlarge my woe; My spirit languishes, my heart Is desolate and low. With ev'ry morning light My sorrow new begins; Look on my anguish and my pain, And pardon all my sins. Behold the hosts of hell, How cruel is their hate! Against my life they rise, and join Their fury with deceit. O keep my soul from death, Nor put my hope to shame, For I have placed my only trust In my Redeemer's name. With humble faith I wait To see thy face again: Of Isr'el it shall ne'er be said, He sought the Lord in vain. Scripture: Psalm 25:15-22

Psalm 91

Author: James Montgomery Appears in 217 hymnals Topics: Backsliding First Line: Call Jehovah thy salvation Lyrics: 1 Call Jehovah thy salvation, Rest beneath the Almighty's shade; In his secret habitation Dwell, and never be dismayed: There no tumult can alarm thee, Thou shalt dread no hidden snare; Guile nor violence can harm thee, In eternal safeguard there. 2 From the sword, at noon-day wasting, From the noisome pestilence; In the depth of midnight, blasting, God shall be thy sure defence: Fear not thou the deadly quiver, When a thousand feel the blow; Mercy shall thy soul deliver, Though ten thousand be laid low. 3 Since, with pure and firm affection, Thou on God hast set thy love, With the wings of his protection, He will shield thee from above; Thou shalt call on him in trouble, He will hearken, he will save; Here, for grief reward thee double, Crown with life beyond the grave. Scripture: Psalm 17:8 Used With Tune: MANSFIELD

In Gabriel's hand a mighty stone

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Backsliding soul in distress and desertion; Distress of soul, or backsliding and desertion Lyrics: In Gabriel's hand a mighty stone Lies, a fair type of Babylon: "Prophets, rejoice, and all ye saints, God shall avenge your long complaints." He said, and dreadful as he stood, He sunk the millstone in the flood: "Thus terribly shall Babel fall, Thus, and no more be found at all." Scripture: Revelation 18:20-21