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Come, Humble Sinner
Author: Edmund Jones Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 714 hymnals First Line: Come, humble sinner, in whose breast Lyrics: 1. Come, humble sinner, in whose breast,
A thousand thoughts revolve,
Come, with your guilt and fear oppressed,
And make this last resolve.
2. I’ll go to Jesus, though my sin
Like mountains round me close;
I know His courts, I’ll enter in,
Whatever may oppose.
3. Prostrate I’ll lie before His throne,
And there my guilt confess,
I’ll tell Him, I’m a wretch undone,
Without His sovereign grace.
4. I’ll to the gracious King approach,
Whose scepter pardon gives;
Perhaps he command my touch,
And then the suppliant lives.
5. Perhaps He will admit my plea,
Perhaps will hear my prayer;
But, if I perish, I will pray,
And perish only there.
6. I can but perish if I go;
I am resolved to try;
But if I stay away, I know
I must forever die.
7. But, if I die with mercy sought,
When I the King have tried,
This were to die (delightful thought!)
As sinner never died. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, by John Rippon, 1787
Come, Humble Sinner
How Should The Sons Of Adam's Race
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 37 hymnals First Line: How should the sons of Adam’s race Lyrics: 1 How should the sons of Adam’s race
Be pure before their God?
If He contend in righteousness,
We fall beneath His rod.
2 To vindicate my words and thoughts
I’ll make no more pretense;
Not one of all my thousand faults
Can bear a just defense.
3 Strong is His arm, His heart is wise;
What vain perfumers dare
Against their Maker’s hand to rise,
Or tempt th’unequal war?
4 Mountains by His almighty wrath
From their old seats are torn;
He shakes the earth, from south to north,
And all her pillars mourn.
5 He bids the sun forbear to rise;
Th’obedient sun forbears:
His hand with sackcloth spreads the skies,
And seals up all the stars.
6 He walks upon the stormy sea;
Flies on the stormy wind:
There’s none can trace His wondrous way,
Or His dark footsteps find. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, 1707
How Should The Sons Of Adam's Race
Since Without Thee We Do No Good
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861 Appears in 7 hymnals Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE
Since Without Thee We Do No Good
How Oft Doth Beauty Lead To Sin
Author: Susanna Harrison Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 How oft doth beauty lead to sin,
And tempt the heart to stray;
It charms awhile, then hides again,
And soon it fades away!
2 Not all the art, and pains, and care
Of man can make it sure;
Nor can the fairest of the fair
The transient bliss secure.
3 Sickness and pain may soon disgrace
The most admirèd charms:
Soon must they sleep in death’s embrace,
And lose their lovely forms.
4 How vain is beauty, then, my Muse!
Unworthy of thy lays:
Turn, and a nobler subject choose,
Let virtue have thy praise.
5 How wise is she whose constant care
Pursues the heav’nly road:
She shall the Eternal’s favor share,
And every real good.
6 She ever shuns the snares of vice
How circumspect her ways!
Wise in simplicity she is;
Unsought her general praise.
7 If she is called to mingle souls,
How cautious is her choice;
No vain pretense her love controls,
She scorns the flatterer’s voice.
8 United, see, illustrious shines
The tender, prudent wife;
Humility her soul refines,
Grace governs all her life.
9 What undissembled love she bears
To him who has her hand:
How does she soften all his cares,
And all his woes attend!
10 Is she a friend? How kind and true!
Her charity, how pure!
Her friendship is not like the dew
That passes in an hour.
11 She shall be praised when beauty fails,
And years and age increase:
She shall be blest while grace prevails,
And end her days in peace. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Songs in the Night (Ipswich, England: Punchard & Jermyn, 1780)
How Oft Doth Beauty Lead To Sin
The Faded Leaf
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: O, fragile glory of the bowers Lyrics: 1 O, fragile glory of the bowers,
Ye fall no more to rise;
But bright and glorious hope is ours,
A hope beyond the skies.
2 We trust, when fades this feeble form,
And low our bodies rest,
Beyond the reach of blight or storm,
To bloom among the blest.
3 He, who bestowed upon the tree
The leaves that gaily wave,
To man a noble destiny,
A part immortal gave.
4 Then he, with faith’s aspiring eye,
Firm fixed on things above,
Might gain at last a home on high,
Through his Redeemer’s love. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: The Aeolian Harp by Mary E. Herbert and Sarah Herbert (Halifax: E. G. Fuller, 1857)
The Faded Leaf
Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Saints, And See
Author: Benjamin Beddome Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Lift up your heads, ye saints, and see,
The wished-for day is come;
Jesus descends in majesty,
To lead His followers home.
2 His chariot wheels no more delay,
Rejoice, ye chosen ones;
He comes to call His saints away,
And bring from far His sons.
3 He is your Savior and your King,
Shout then with cheerful voice;
To Him your loud hosannas sing,
Who bids your hearts rejoice. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton & Briggs, 1818)
Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Saints, And See
Should We Not Thank And Praise Our God?
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 4 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Should we not thank and praise our God?
Who heard our humble cry,
Who has withdrawn His chastening rod,
And laid His threat’nings by.
2 The blessèd rain the Lord hath sent,
Revived our scorching earth,
And put an end to our complaint,
And fears of fatal dearth.
3 Due praise to God let us return,
For the refreshing rain,
We who like as our earth did mourn,
Are now revived again.
4 Eternal praise to God we give,
In whose blest hands we are;
Who still provides for us to live,
Unworthy as we are.
5 Had Heav’n the rain from us withheld,
What would our case have been?
A curse had rested on our fields:
Our just reward for sin.
6 Thanks be to God, it was His will
In mercy us to spare,
And we enjoy His blessing still,
Unworthy as we are. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Church Hymn Book by Paul Henkel (New Market, VA: Solomon Henkel, 1816)
Should We Not Thank And Praise Our God?
From Thee, My God, All Blessings Spring
Author: John Needham Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 From Thee, my God, all blessings spring,
To Thee my life I owe;
My lungs by Thee were bid to heave,
My feet were taught to go.
2 Thy wool me clothes, Thy bread I eat,
Thy streams my thirst allay:
Each night Thou spread’st a tent around,
Kind guardian through the day.
3 A friend, that medicine sweet of life,
To Thee, my God, I owe:
Health, credit, liberty, and peace
All from Thy bounty flow.
4 Author of good! I praise Thy name,
On Thee I still depend:
Give me this day my daily bread,
All needful blessings send.
5 If more Thou giv’st, I thank Thee, Lord;
If less, still kind Thou art:
Content with this, may I secure
That sure and better part.
6 Next to Thy right may I have claim
To all that I call mine;
My honest labors prosper, Lord,
Thus give me that is Thine.
7 All anxious cares that wound my peace,
Lord, banish from my breast;
The future I would leave with Thee,
For Thou wilt do the best. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Hymns Devotional and Moral on Various Subjects (Bristol, England: S. Farley, 1768)
From Thee, My God, All Blessings Spring
Now That the Sun Is Gleaming Bright
Author: Ambrose of Milan; John H. Newman Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 107 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Now that the sun is gleaming bright,
Implore we, bending low,
That He, the uncreated Light
May guide us as we go.
2. No sinful word, nor deed of wrong
Nor thoughts that idly rove,
But simple truth be on our tongue,
And in our hearts be love.
3. And while the hours in order flow,
O Christ, securely fence
Our gates, beleaguered by the foe,
The gate of every sense.
4. And grant that to Thine honor, Lord,
Our daily toil may tend;
That we begin it at Thy Word,
And in Thy favor end. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE
Now That the Sun Is Gleaming Bright
Thou Grace Divine, Encircling All
Author: Eliza Scudder Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 73 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Thou grace divine, encircling all,
A soundless, shoreless sea!
Wherein at last our souls must fall
O love of God most free!
2. And though we turn us from thy face,
And wander wide and long,
Thou hold’st us still in Thine embrace,
O love of God most strong!
3. The saddened heart, the restless soul,
The toil worn frame and mind,
Alike confess thy sweet control,
O love of God most kind!
4. And filled and quickened by Thy breath,
Our souls are strong and free,
To rise o’er sin and fear and death,
O love of God, to Thee! Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Pictures of the Olden Time, as Shown in the Fortunes of a Family of Pilgrims, by her uncle Edmund H. Sears, 1857
Thou Grace Divine, Encircling All
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