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Thou Awful God, Whose Righteous Ire

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Thou awful God, whose righteous ire In Sion as a furnace burns; Fit fuel of eternal fire, A face that all Thy mercy scorns; Behold us where in death we lie, Nor let our souls for ever die. 2 All we like sheep have gone astray, Have turned to our own wickedness, Rushed headlong down the spacious way; But O! how few their sins confess, Their foul apostasy bemoan, Or tremble as the wrath comes down. 3 Yet hast Thou left Thyself a seed, A remnant of peculiar grace, A little flock who mourn and plead, And wrestle for the faithless race, That will not hear Thy threatening rod, Or turn, and find a pardoning God. 4 Touched from above with fear divine, We would the weeping few increase, Our broken hearts and voices join, And wail our nation’s wickedness, In deepest groans our crimes declare, In all the agony of prayer. 5 Alas for us, to evil sold, A seed of lips and hearts unclean, In vice beyond example bold, Sunk in the dregs of time and sin, Laden with all iniquity, As Satan contrary to Thee! 6 Yet for the righteous remnant’s sake Our death-devoted Sodom spare, And call the storms of vengeance back— Or if Thou canst no more forbear, Thyself resume our wretched breath, But save us from eternal death. Used With Tune: MELITA Text Sources: Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution by John and Charles Wesley (London: Strahan, 1744)

O God, Whose First Creative Word

Author: Judith Fetter Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: God The Triune God; Creation; Faith; God Creator; Grace; Holy Spirit Presence; Hope; Temptation; Time; Trinity; Triumph; Word of God Used With Tune: MELITA

Great God, Who, Ready To Forgive

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Great God, who, ready to forgive, In wrath rememberest mercy still, By whose preserving love we live, Though doomed the second death to feel; We magnify Thy patient grace, And tremble, while we sing Thy praise. 2 Had not Thy mercy interposed, When sleeping in our sins we lay, The staggering earth had yawned, and closed Its mouth on its devoted prey, We now had with our city fell, And quick descended into hell. 3 But O! The Savior of mankind Hath gained for us a longer space, Jesus His Father’s heart inclined To spare a vile rebellious race, To snatch from Corah’s fearful doom, And save us from the wrath to come. 4 Then let us to our Savior turn, Answer His mercy’s whole design, With godly fear rejoice, and mourn, And praises with confessions join, Till all these lowering clouds remove, And God appears: The God of love. Used With Tune: MELITA Text Sources: Hymns Occasioned by the Earthquake, March 8, 1750, second edition, 1756

Come, O thou Traveller unknown

Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 289 hymnals Used With Tune: MELITA

We have not known Thee as we ought

Author: Thomas Benson Pollock Appears in 49 hymnals Used With Tune: MELITA

Thou Who the night in pray'r didst spend

Author: Anon. Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 16 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Thou Who the night in prayer didst spend, And then Thy twelve apostles send; And bidd'st us pray the harvest's Lord To send forth sowers of Thy word, Hear, and Thy chosen servants bless With seven-fold gifts of holiness. 2 Oh, may Thy pastors faithful be, Not laboring for themselves, but Thee; Give grace to feed with wholesome food The sheep and lambs bought by Thy blood; To tend Thy flock, and thus to prove How dearly they the Shepherd love! 3 Oh, may Thy people faithful be, And in Thy pastors honor Thee, And with them work, and for them pray, And gladly Thee in them obey; Receive the prophet of the Lord, And gain the prophet's own reward! 4 So may we, when our work is done, Together stand before the throne; And joyful hearts and voices raise In one united song of praise, With all the bright celestial host, To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. Topics: Ember Days; Ember Days; Ordinations; The Clergy Used With Tune: MELITA

Surrounded by a Host of Foes

Author: Charles Wesley; John Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 37 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Surrounded by a host of foes, Stormed by a host of foes within, Nor swift to flee, nor strong t’oppose, Single, against hell, earth, and sin, Single, yet undismayed, I am; I dare believe in Jesus’ name. 2. What though a thousand hosts engage, A thousand worlds, my soul to shake? I have a shield shall quell their rage, And drive the alien armies back; Portrayed it bears a bleeding Lamb I dare believe in Jesus’ name. 3. Me to retrieve from Satan’s hands, Me from this evil world to free, To purge my sins, and loose my bands, And save from all iniquity, My Lord and God from Heav’n He came; I dare believe in Jesus’ name. 4. Salvation in His name there is, Salvation from sin, death, and hell, Salvation into glorious bliss, How great salvation, who can tell! But all He hath for mine I claim; I dare believe in Jesus’ name. Used With Tune: MELITA Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, by John & Charles Wesley, 1749