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Jesus, thou art the sinner's Friend

Appears in 367 hymnals Used With Tune: BANGOR

I am not worthy, holy Lord

Author: H. W. Baker (1821-1877) Appears in 75 hymnals Topics: God's Church Holy Communion Scripture: Matthew 8:8 Used With Tune: BANGOR

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 118 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O God of mercy, hear my call, My loads of guilt remove; Break down this separating wall, That bars me from my love. 2. Give me the presence of Thy grace, Then my rejoicing tongue Shall speak aloud Thy righteousness, And make Thy praise my song. 3. No blood of goats nor heifers slain, For sin could e’er atone; The death of Christ shall still remain Sufficient and alone. 4. A soul oppressed with sin’s desert, My God will ne’er despise; A humble groan, a broken heart, Is our best sacrifice. Used With Tune: BANGOR Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

Come, Spirit, come; for here below

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

O anfon di yr Ysbryd Glan

Appears in 5 hymnals Used With Tune: BANGOR

Return, O God of love return

Appears in 97 hymnals Used With Tune: BANGOR

Terrible Thought! Shall I Alone

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 65 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Terrible thought! shall I alone— Who may be saved—Shall I Of all, alas! whom I have known, Through sin for ever die? 2. While all my old companions dear, With whom I once did live, Joyful at God’s right hand appear, A blessing to receive. 3. Shall I, amidst a ghastly band, Dragged to the judgment seat, Far on the left with horror stand, My fearful doom to meet? 4. Ah, no! I still may turn and live, For still His wrath delays; He now vouchsafes a kind reprieve, And offers me His grace. 5. I will accept His offers now, From every sin depart, Perform my oft-repeated vow And render Him my heart. 6. I will improve what I receive, The grace through Jesus giv’n; Sure, if with God on earth I live, To live with Him in Heav’n. Used With Tune: BANGOR Text Sources: Hymns for Children, 1763

Alas! By Nature How Depraved

Author: John Newton Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 18 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Alas! by nature how depraved, How prone to every ill! Our lives, to Satan, how enslaved, How obstinate our will! 2. And can such sinners be restored, Such rebels reconciled? Can grace itself the means afford To make a foe a child? 3. Yes, grace has found the wondrous means Which shall effectual prove; To cleanse us from our countless sins, And teach our hearts to love. 4. Jesus for sinners undertakes, And died that we may live; His blood a full atonement makes, And cries aloud, Forgive. 5. Yet one thing more must grace provide, To bring us home to God; Or we shall slight the Lord, who died, And trample on His blood. 6. The Holy Spirit must reveal The Savior’s work and worth; Then the hard heart begins to feel A new and heavenly birth. 7. Thus bought with blood, and born again, Redeemed, and saved, by grace Rebels, in God’s own house obtain A son’s and daughter’s place. Used With Tune: BANGOR Text Sources: Olney Hymns, (London: W. Oliver, 1779), number 29

See, Gracious God, Before Thy Throne

Author: Anne Steele Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 186 hymnals Lyrics: 1 See, gracious God, before Thy throne Thy mourning people bend! ’Tis on Thy sovereign grace alone, Our humble hopes depend. 2 Tremendous judgments from Thy hand, Thy dreadful power display: Yet mercy spares this guilty land, And yet we live to pray. 3 Great God, and why this nation spare, Ungrateful as we are? O be these awful warnings heard, While mercy cries, Forebear. 4 What numerous crimes increasing rise, Where Satan shows his smile? What land so favored of the skies, And yet what land so vile? 5 How changed, alas! are truths divine, For error, guilt and shame! What impious numbers, bold in sin, Disgrace the Christian name! 6 O bid us turn, almighty Lord, By Thy resistless grace; Then shall our hearts obey Thy word, And humble seek Thy face. 7 Then should insulting foes invade, We shall not sink in fear; Secure of never failing aid, If God, our God, is near. Used With Tune: BANGOR Text Sources: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760, alt.