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I Want a Principle Within
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 231 hymnals Topics: Conscience Lyrics: 1 I want a principle within
Of watchful, godly fear,
A sensibility of sin,
A pain to feel it near.
Help me the first approach to feel
Of pride or wrong desire;
To catch the wandering of my will,
And quench the kindling fire.
2 From Thee that I no more may stray,
No more Thy goodness grieve,
Grant me the filial awe, I pray,
The tender conscience give.
Quick as the apple of an eye,
O God, my conscience make!
Awake my soul when sin is nigh,
And keep it still awake.
3 Almighty God of truth and love,
To me Thy pow'r impart;
The burden from my soul remove,
The hardness from my heart.
O may the least omission pain
My reawakened soul,
And drive me to that blood again,
Which makes the wounded whole.
Amen. Scripture: Acts 24:16 Used With Tune: LLANGLOFFAN
I Want a Principle Within
A Charge to Keep I Have
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1,393 hymnals Topics: Conscience; Conscience Lyrics: 1 A charge to keep I have,
a God to glorify,
a never-dying soul to save,
and fit it for the sky.
2 To serve the present age,
my calling to fulfill,
O may it all my powers engage
to do my Master's will!
3 Arm me with watchful care
as in thy sight to live,
and oh, thy servant, Lord,
prepare a strict account to give!
4 Help me to watch and pray,
and still on thee rely,
O let me not my trust betray,
but press to realms on high. Scripture: Mark 14:38 Used With Tune: BOYLSTON
A Charge to Keep I Have
How Happy Are They
Author: Henry Wotton, 1568-1639 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 113 hymnals Topics: Right of Conscience First Line: How happy are they, born or taught Lyrics: 1 How happy are they, born or taught,
who do not serve another’s will;
whose armor is their honest thought,
and simple truth their highest skill;
2 Whose passions not their rulers are;
whose souls are still, and free from fear,
not tied unto the world with care
of public fame of private ear;
3 Who have their lives from rumors freed,
whose conscience is their strong retreat,
whose state no flattery can feed,
nor ruin make oppressors great.
4 All such are freed from servile bands
of hope to rise, or fear to fall;
they rule themselves, but rule not lands,
and, having nothing, yet have all. Used With Tune: WAREHAM
How Happy Are They
Faith of our fathers! living still
Author: Dr. F. W. Faber, 1814-1863 Appears in 862 hymnals Topics: Conscience Clear Lyrics: 1 Faith of our fathers! living still
In spite of dungeon, fire and sword;
O how our hearts beat high with joy
When'er we hear that glorious word!
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death!
2 Our fathers, chained in prisons dark,
Were still in heart and conscience free;
How sweet would be their children's fate,
If they, like them, could die for thee!
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death!
3 Faith of our fathers! we will love
Both friend and foe in all our strife,
And preach thee too, as love knows how,
By kindly words and virtuous life.
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death! Used With Tune: ST. FINBAR
Faith of our fathers! living still
Come ye sinners, poor and wretched
Author: Rev. Joseph Hart, 1712-1768 Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.4.7 Appears in 1,488 hymnals Topics: Conscience Used With Tune: DUSSELDORF
Come ye sinners, poor and wretched
With broken heart and contrite sigh
Author: Rev. Cornelius Elven, 1797-1893 Appears in 222 hymnals Topics: Conscience Used With Tune: ST. CRISPIN
With broken heart and contrite sigh
All Whose Boast It Is
Author: James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 61 hymnals Topics: Right of Conscience First Line: All whose boast it is that we Lyrics: 1 All whose boast it is that we
come of forebears brave and free,
if there breathe on earth a slave,
are we truly free and brave?
If we do not feel the chain
when it works another’s pain,
are we not base slaves indeed,
slaves unwilling to be freed?
2 Is true freedom but to break
fetters for our own dear sake,
and with leathern hearts forget
we owe humankind a debt?
No, true freedom is to share
all the chains that others wear,
and, with heart and hand, to be
earnest to make others free.
3 They are slaves who fear to speak
for the fallen and the weak;
they are slaves who will not choose
hatred, scoffing, and abuse,
rather than in silence shrink
from the truth they needs must think.
They are slaves who dare not be
in the right with two or three. Used With Tune: SALZBURG
All Whose Boast It Is
Guilt of Conscience and Relief; or Repentance and Prayer for Pardon and Health
Appears in 61 hymnals Topics: Conscience its guilt relieved; Guilt of Conscience relieved; Conscience its guilt relieved; Guilt of Conscience relieved First Line: Amidst thy wrath remember love Lyrics: 1 Amidst thy wrath remember love,
Restore thy servant, Lord,
Nor let a Father’s chastening prove
Like an avenger’s sword.
2 Thine arrows stick within my heart,
My flesh is sorely prest;
Between the sorrow and the smart
My spirit finds no rest.
3 My sins a heavy load appear,
And o’er my head are gone;
Too heavy they for me to bear,
Too hard for me t’atone.
4 My thoughts are like a troubled sea,
That sinks my comforts down;
And I go mourning all the day
Beneath my Father’s frown.
5 Lord, I am weaken'd and dismay'd,
None of my powers are whole;
My wounds with piercing anguish bleed,
The anguish of my soul.
6 All my desire to thee are known,
Thine eye counts every tear,
And every sigh and every groan
Is notic'd by thine ear.
7 Thou art my God, my only hope;
My God will hear my cry,
My God will bear my spirit up
When Satan bids me die.
8 My foes rejoice whene'er I slide,
To see my virtue fail;
They raise their pleasure and their pride,
Whene'er their wiles prevail.
9 But I’ll confess my guilty ways,
And grieve for all my sin;
I’ll mourn how weak the seeds of grace,
And beg support divine.
10 My God, forgive my follies past,
And be forever nigh;
O Lord of my salvation haste,
Before thy servant die. Scripture: Psalm 38
Guilt of Conscience and Relief; or Repentance and Prayer for Pardon and Health
Holy Fear, and Tenderness of Conscience
Appears in 70 hymnals Topics: Conscience tender; Conscience tender First Line: With my whole heart I've sought thy face Lyrics: 1 With my whole heart I've sought thy face,
Oh let me never stray
From thy commands, O God of grace,
Nor tread the sinner's way.
2 Thy word I've hid within my heart,
To keep my conscience clean,
And be an everlasting guard
From every rising sin.
3 I'm a companion of the saints,
Who fear and love the Lord;
My sorrows rise, my nature faints,
When men transgress thy word.
4 While sinners do thy gospel wrong,
My spirit stands in awe;
My soul abhors a lying tongue,
But loves thy righteous law.
5 My heart with sacred reverence hears
The threatenings of thy word;
My flesh with holy trembling fears
The judgements of the Lord.
6 My God, I long, I hope, I wait
For thy salvation still;
While thy whole law is my delight,
And I obey thy will. Scripture: Psalm 119:174
Holy Fear, and Tenderness of Conscience
Pardoning Grace
Appears in 106 hymnals Topics: Conscience its guilt relieved; Guilt of Conscience relieved; Conscience its guilt relieved; Guilt of Conscience relieved First Line: From deep distress and troubled thoughts Lyrics: 1 From deep distress and troubled thoughts,
To thee, my God, I rais'd my cries:
If thou severely mark our faults,
No flesh can stand before thine eyes.
2 But thou hast built thy throne of grace
Free to dispense thy pardons there,
That sinners may approach thy face,
And hope, and love, as well as fear.
3 As the benighted pilgrims wait,
And long and wish for breaking day,
So waits my soul before thy gate;
When will my God his face display!
4 My trust is fix'd upon thy word,
Nor shall I trust thy word in vain:
Let mourning souls address the Lord,
And find relief from all their pain.
5 Great is his love, and large his grace,
Through the redemption of his Son:
He turns our feet from sinful ways,
And pardons what our hands have done. Scripture: Psalm 130
Pardoning Grace
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