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O mean may seem this house of clay

Author: Thomas Hornblower Gill, 1819-1906 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 62 hymnals Topics: God: His Attributes, Works and Word The Lord Jesus Christ - His Life and Example; The Church The Sacraments - The Lord's Supper Used With Tune: CHESHIRE

O Savior, May We Never Rest

Author: William H. Bathurst Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 27 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O Savior, may we never rest Till Thou art formed within, Till Thou hast calmed our troubled breast, And crushed the power of sin. 2. O may we gaze upon Thy cross, Until the wondrous sight Makes earthly treasures seem but dross, And earthly sorrows light. 3. Until, released from carnal ties, Our spirit upward springs, And sees true peace above the skies, True joy in heavenly things. 4. There as we gaze, may we become United, Lord, to Thee, And, in a fairer, happier home, Thy perfect beauty see. Used With Tune: CHESHIRE

O Holy Ghost, thy people bless

Author: Rev. Sir H. W. Baker Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 25 hymnals Topics: The Holy Spirit; Whitsuntide Used With Tune: CHESHIRE

Weep Not for Him Who Onward Bears

Author: Thomas B. Pollock Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 9 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Weep not for Him who onward bears His cross to Calvary; He does not ask man’s pitying tears, Who wills for man to die. 2. The awful sorrow of His face, The bowing of His frame, Come not from torture or disgrace; He fears not cross or shame. 3. There is a deeper pang of grief, An agony unknown, In which His love finds no relief; He bears it all alone. 4. He thinks of all for whom His life Of lowliness and pain, And weariness and care and strife, Will be, alas, in vain. 5. He sees the souls for whom He dies Yet clinging to their sin, And heirs of mansions in the skies Who will not enter in. 6. Ah! this, my Savior, was the shame That bowed Thy head so low; These were the wounds that racked Thy frame, And made Thy tears to flow. 7. O may I in Thy sorrow share, And mourn that sins of mine Should ever wound with grief or care That loving heart of Thine. Used With Tune: CHESHIRE Text Sources: Gospeller, 1870

Rulers of Sodom! Hear the Voice

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Rulers of Sodom! hear the voice Of Heav’n’s eternal Lord; Men of Gomorrah! bend your ear Submissive to His Word. 2. ’Tis thus He speaks; to what intent Are your oblations vain? Why load My altars with your gifts, Polluted and profane? 3. Burnt offerings long may blaze to Heav’n, And incense cloud the skies; The worship and the worshipper Are hateful in My eyes. 4. Your rites, your fasts, your prayers, I scorn, And pomp of solemn days: I know your hearts are full of guile, And crooked are your ways. 5. But cleanse your hands, ye guilty race, And cease from deeds of sin; Learn in your actions to be just, And pure in heart within. 6. Mock not My name with honors vain, But keep My holy laws; Do justice to the friendless poor, And plead the widow’s cause. 7. Then, though your guilty souls are stained With sins of crimson dye, Yet, through My grace with snow itself In whiteness they shall vie. Used With Tune: CHESHIRE Text Sources: Scottish Translations and Paraphrases, 1781

When the Great Judge

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 55 hymnals First Line: When the great judge, supreme and just Lyrics: 1. When the great judge, supreme and just, Shall once inquire for blood, The humble souls that mourn in dust Shall find a faithful God. 2. He from the dreadful gates of death Does His own children raise; In Zion’s gates, with cheerful breath, They sing their Father’s praise. 3. His foes shall fall, with heedless feet, Into the pit they made; And sinners perish in the net That their own hands had spread. 4. Thus, by Thy judgments, mighty God, Are Thy deep counsels known; When men of mischief are destroyed, The snare must be their own. 5. The wicked shall sink down to hell; Thy wrath devour the lands That dare forget Thee, or rebel Against Thy known commands. 6. Though saints to sore distress are brought, And wait and long complain, Their cries shall not be still forgot, Nor shall their hopes be vain. 7. Rise, great Redeemer, from Thy seat, To judge and save the poor; Let nations tremble at Thy feet, And man prevail no more. 8. Thy thunder shall affright the proud, And put their hearts to pain; Make them confess that Thou art God, And they but feeble men. Used With Tune: CHESHIRE Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

When rising from the bed of death

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 258 hymnals Lyrics: 1 When rising from the bed of death, o’erwhelm'd with guilt and fear, I see my Maker face to face, O how shall I appear! 2 If yet while pardon may be found, and mercy may be sought, my heart with inward horror shrinks; and trembles at the thought; 3 When thou, O Lord! shalt stand disclos'd in majesty severe, and sit in judgement on my soul, O how shall I appear! 4 But thou hast told the troubled mind, who doth her sins lament, the timely grief for errors past shall future woe prevent. 5 Then see the sorrows of my heart, ere yet it be too late; and hear my Saviour’s dying groans, to give those sorrows weight. 6 For never shall my soul despair of mercy at thy throne, Who knows thine only Son has dy'd thy justice to atone. Used With Tune: CHESHIRE

Lord, in Thy Name Thy servants plead

Author: John Keble Appears in 67 hymnals Used With Tune: CHESTER

The Lord In Judgment Now Appears

Author: Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 9 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The Lord in judgment now appears, And spreads His wrath abroad; See sinners filled with guilty fears, By righteous vengeance awed. 2 Seized by incurable disease, What crowds of victims fall; Unsparing death relentless preys, Nor spares the great or small. 3 Lord, we our sin and guilt confess, Yet mercy would implore: To mitigate our sore distress, Display Thy mighty power. 4 Say, "’Tis enough," and give command, Disease shall then retire, And rosy health revive our land, Now trembling at Thine ire. 5 If this too great a favor seem, Lord, bow our wills to Thine; Thou still Thy chosen wilt redeem, And give them life divine. Used With Tune: CHESHIRE Text Sources: Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton & Briggs, 1818)