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Ah, Guilty Sinner!
Author: Joshua Leavitt Meter: 11.11.11.10 Appears in 66 hymnals Matching Instances: 66 First Line: Ah, guilty sinner, ruined by transgression
Ah, Guilty Sinner!
BUNKER HILL
Appears in 8 hymnals Matching Instances: 6 Tune Sources: The Christian Lyre, 1830 Tune Key: a minor or modal Incipit: 32127 51712 23212 Used With Text: Ah, Guilty Sinner
BUNKER HILL
[Ah! guilty sinner, ruined by transgression]
Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: J. W. R. Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 53453 21766 21765 Used With Text: Ah, Guilty Sinner!
[Ah! guilty sinner, ruined by transgression]
Ah, Guilty Sinner
Author: Joshua Leavitt Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #14436 First Line: Ah, guilty sinner, ruined by transgression Lyrics: 1 Ah, guilty sinner, ruined by transgression,
What shall thy doom be, when arrayed in terror,
God shall command thee, covered with pollution,
Up to the judgment?
2 Wilt thou escape from His omniscient notice,
Fly to the caverns, court annihilation?
Vain thy presumption, justice still shall triumph
In thy destruction.
3 Stop, thoughtless sinner, stop awhile and ponder,
Ere death arrest thee, and the Judge, in vengeance,
Hurl from His presence thine affrighted spirit,
Swift to perdition.
4 Oft He has called thee, but thou wouldst not hear Him,
Mercies and judgments have alike been slighted;
Yet He is gracious, and with arms unfolded,
Waits to embrace thee.
5 Come, then, poor sinner, come away this moment,
Just as you are, come, filthy and polluted,
Come to the fountain open for uncleanness;
Jesus invites you.
6 But, if you trifle with His gracious message,
Cleave to the world and love its guilty pleasures,
Mercy, grown weary, shall in righteous judgment,
Quit you forever.
7 Then you shall call, but He will not regard you,
Seek for His favor, but shall never find it,
Cry to the rocks to hide you from His presence,
Deep in their caverns.
8 Where the worm dies not, and the fire eternal,
Fills the lost soul with anguish and with terror,
There shall the sinner spend a long forever,
Dying unpardoned.
9 Oh! guilty sinner, hear the voice of warning;
Fly to the Savior, and embrace His pardon;
So shall your spirit meet, with joy triumphant,
Death and the judgment! Languages: English Tune Title: BUNKER HILL
Ah, Guilty Sinner
Ah, guilty sinner, ruined by transgression
Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book #1118 (1866)
Ah, guilty sinner, ruined by transgression
Ah, guilty sinner, ruined by transgression
Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal #747 (1875)
Ah, guilty sinner, ruined by transgression
Charles Beecher
1815 - 1900 Person Name: Rev. Chas. Beecher Author of "Ah, guilty sinner, ruined by transgression" in The Alleluia Beecher, Charles, son of the well-known Dr. Lyman Beecher, whose autobiography he chiefly edited, and brother of Henry Ward Beecher, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, 1815. Mr. Beecher was for some time a Congregational pastor at Georgetown, Mass. He has published Review of Spiritual Manifestations, 1853; Pen Pictures of the Bible, 1855, &c. His hymns were contributed to his brother's Plymouth Collection, 1855, and include:—
1. There's rest in the grave. Heaven.
2. We are on our journey home. Heaven.
The latter is in the more extensive use, but both are unknown to the English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Charles Beecher
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Author of "Ah! guilty sinner, ruined by transgression " in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
Joshua Leavitt
1794 - 1873 Author of "Ah, Guilty Sinner" in The Cyber Hymnal Joshua Leavitt (September 8, 1794-Jan. 16,1873) was born in Heath, MA, earned a degree from Yale College, practiced law in Putney, VT, was graduated from Yale Seminary, was ordained and served as a Congregational minister at Stratford, CT for four years before he moved to New York City to serve as Secretary of the American Seamens’ Friend Society. He was for many years musical advisor to the most famous revivalist of the Second Great Awakening, Charles Grandison Finney. In 1831 he compiled and published The Christian Lyre, the first hymnal to print music (melody and bass) for every hymn. He was a spokesman for the Liberty Party and a campaigner for cheap postage. He was editor of many periodicals including The Emancipator, the New York Independent, the New York Evangelist, etc. He was first Secretary of the American Temperance Society and co-founder of the New York City Anti-Slavery Society. He aided a slave Basil Dorsey to escape from MD to MA and formed with Lewis Tappan and Simeon Jocelyn the Amistad Committee to raise funds for the defense of Amistad captives. On Wikipedia can be seen a letter of August 1862 to Lincoln signed by Leavitt, Henry Ward Beecher and other abolitionists requesting formation of black regiments in the Union Army.
Mary Louise VanDyke
Concerning publication dates of The Christian Lyre, Leavitt left a very useful description:
"The Christian Lyre was commenced in November, 1830, as a monthly repository of music and hymns, for social worship. Vol. I., containing six No's, or 216 pages, was completed the first of April, and Vol. II. the first of October, 1831. At that time, there had been published no less than Nine Editions of Vol. I., each edition consisting of 2000 copies." (Preface to 1837 edition of the Supplement). Apparently each monthly "number" was 36 pages, which means the first 72 pages were published in 1830, the rest in early 1831. Both Volume 2 and the Supplement date from 1831; all three were separately paginated, for a total of 310 tunes with words.
Joshua Leavitt
