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And Can It Be That I Should Gain?

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 291 hymnals First Line: And can it be that I should gain Lyrics: 1. And can it be that I should gain An interest in the Savior’s blood? Died He for me, who caused His pain— For me, who Him to death pursued? Amazing love! How can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? Amazing love! How can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? 2. ’Tis mystery all: th’Immortal dies: Who can explore His strange design? In vain the firstborn seraph tries To sound the depths of love divine. ’Tis mercy all! Let earth adore, Let angel minds inquire no more. ’Tis mercy all! Let earth adore; Let angel minds inquire no more. 3. He left His Father’s throne above So free, so infinite His grace— Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam’s helpless race: ’Tis mercy all, immense and free, For O my God, it found out me! ’Tis mercy all, immense and free, For O my God, it found out me! 4. Long my imprisoned spirit lay, Fast bound in sin and nature’s night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray— I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. 5. Still the small inward voice I hear, That whispers all my sins forgiven; Still the atoning blood is near, That quenched the wrath of hostile Heaven. I feel the life His wounds impart; I feel the Savior in my heart. I feel the life His wounds impart; I feel the Savior in my heart. 6. No condemnation now I dread; Jesus, and all in Him, is mine; Alive in Him, my living Head, And clothed in righteousness divine, Bold I approach th’eternal throne, And claim the crown, through Christ my own. Bold I approach th’eternal throne, And claim the crown, through Christ my own. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Psalms and Hymns, 1738

Jesus, I Thee Adore

Author: Henry Collins Appears in 218 hymnals First Line: Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All Refrain First Line: Jesus, my Lord, I Thee adore Used With Tune: SAGINA

Behold the Servant of the Lord

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 51 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Behold the servant of the Lord! I wait Thy guiding eye to feel, To hear and keep Thy every word, To prove and do Thy perfect will, Joyful from my own works to cease, Glad to fulfill all righteousness. 2. Me if Thy grace vouchsafe to use, Meanest of all Thy creatures, me, The deed, the time, the manner choose, Let all my fruit be found of Thee; Let all my works in Thee be wrought, By Thee to full perfection brought. 3. My every weak, though good design, O’errule, or change, as seems Thee meet; Jesus, let all my work be Thine! Thy work, O Lord, is all complete, And pleasing in Thy Father’s sight; Thou only hast done all things right. 4. Here then to Thee Thy own I leave; Mold as Thou wilt Thy passive clay; But let me all Thy stamp receive, But let me all Thy words obey, Serve with a single heart and eye, And to Thy glory live and die. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749

The Book – Let All Bow Down And Read

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: The book—let all bow down and read Lyrics: 1 The book—let all bow down and read— The book of God to sinners given, The birth of Abraham’s blessed Seed, Of David’s Son, sent down from Heaven! Stupendous mystery divine, Gospel to ages past unknown! Heathens and Jews through Jesus join, And God and man in Christ are one. 2 Father of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Our Father through His birth Thou art; Thy Spirit testifies the Word Made flesh, to every faithful heart; In us Thy new-born Son reveal, Thy Son from all eternity, And give Him still on earth to dwell, By faith conceived and formed in me. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868)

What Are These Wounds, So Deep, So Wide?

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: What are these wounds, so deep, so wide Lyrics: "What are these wounds, so deep, so wide, That in Thy sacred hands appear?" "By My own nation crucified, By My own friends I suffer here: My household foes, who bear My name, Have nailed Me to this shameful tree; And every day I wounded am, Thou poor, backsliding soul—by thee!" Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)

Ancient Of Days! The Years Roll On

Author: Thomas Holme Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Ancient of Days! The years roll on Obedient to Thy sole decree; And when their destined work is done, Merge in the past eternity. Thousand of years have sped their way, Since poised by Thine almighty hand; Sun, moon, and stars, in bright array, Have wheeled in spheres at Thy command. 2 Firm as the heavenly hosts appear, The lines which future things portray, Converge in one predestined year, When Heaven and earth shall pass away. Whate’er that consummation be, Oh, let me, Lord, Thy mercy prove In worlds upheaved, from danger free, Within the covert of Thy love! 3 Ancient of Days! ’Tis Thine to say— Man vainly tries to scan th’unknown— How distant or how near the day, When we must stand before Thy throne. Through each new year vouchsafed to me, Be this my being’s aim and end, Thine here to live, in Heaven with Thee A blessed eternity to spend. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poetry (Christian Book Society, 1861)

How Shall the Young Direct Their Way?

Author: Anonymous Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 25 hymnals Lyrics: 1. How shall the young direct their way? What light shall be their perfect guide? Thy Word, O Lord, will safely lead, If in its wisdom they confide. Sincerely I have sought Thee, Lord, O let me not from Thee depart; To know Thy will and keep from sin Thy Word I cherish in my heart. 2. O blessèd Lord, teach me Thy law, Thy righteous judgments I declare; Thy testimonies make me glad, For they are wealth beyond compare. Upon Thy precepts and Thy ways My heart will meditate with awe; Thy Word shall be my chief delight, And I will not forget Thy law. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: The Psalter (Pittsburgh: The United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912)

Lord Jesus Christ, True Man And God

Author: Paul Eber, 1511-1569; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 25 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lord Jesus Christ, true Man and God, Who borest anguish, scorn, the rod, And diedst at last upon the tree, To bring Thy Father’s grace to me; I pray Thee through that bitter woe, Let me, a sinner, mercy know. 2 When comes the hour of failing breath. And I must wrestle, Lord, with death, When from my sight all fades away, And when my tongue no more can say, And when mine ears no more can hear, And when my heart is racked with fear; 3 When all my mind is darkened o’er, And human help can do no more, Then come, Lord Jesus, come with speed, And help me in my hour of need, Lead me from this dark vale beneath, And shorten then the pangs of death. 4 All evil spirits drive away, But let Thy Spirit with me stay Until my soul the body leave; Then in Thy hands my soul receive, And let the earth my body keep, Until the Last Day break its sleep. 5 Joyful my resurrection be, Thou in the judgment plead for me, And hide my sins, Lord, from Thy face, And give me Life of Thy dear grace! I trust Thee utterly, my Lord, For Thou hast promised in Thy Word: 6 “In truth I tell you, who receives My word, and keeps it, and believes, Shall never fall God’s wrath beneath, Shall never taste eternal death; Though here on earth, in time, he die, He is not therefore lost; for I 7 "Will come, and with a mighty hand Will break away death’s strongest band. And lift him hence that he shall be For ever in My realm with Me, For ever living there in bliss. Ah let us not that glory miss!" 8 Dear Lord, forgive us all our guilt, Help us to wait until Thou wilt That we depart; and let our faith Be brave and conquer e’en in death, Firm resting on Thy sacred Word, Until we sleep in Thee, our Lord. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Lyra Germanica (London and New York: George Newnes and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1855)

O Happy Nation

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 30 hymnals First Line: O happy nation, where the Lord Lyrics: 1. O happy nation, where the Lord Reveals the treasure of His Word, And builds His Church, His earthly throne! His eye the heathen world surveys, He formed their hearts, He knows their ways; But God their maker is unknown. 2. Let kings rely upon their host, And of his strength the champion boast; In vain they boast, in vain rely; In vain we trust the brutal force, Or speed, or courage, of a horse, To guard his rider or to fly. 3. The eye of Thy compassion, Lord, Doth more secure defense afford When death or dangers threatening stand; Thy watchful eye preserves the just, Who make Thy name their fear and trust, When wars or famine waste the land. 4. In sickness, or the bloody field, Thou our physician, Thou our shield, Send us salvation from Thy throne: We wait to see Thy goodness shine; Let us rejoice in help divine, For all our hope is God alone. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

That Man Whose Impious Tongue Denies

Author: Harriet Auber Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 That man whose impious tongue denies The God who every want supplies, Or whose unhallowed actions prove He feels nor gratitude nor love, Ranks far beneath the brute, who knows What hand his humble meal bestows. 2 Yet, did not such heavenly grace abound, Such would each son of man be found; For when the Almighty from His throne Looked on the earth, behold not one The narrow path of virtue trod, Or kept the precepts of his God. 3 But He, who with a single breath Could doom a guilty world to death, With mercy’s gently pleading voice, Offers salvation to our choice; Freedom from sin’s debasing chain, And strength fresh conflicts to sustain. 4 O haste we then—with joy embrace This rich, this freely offered grace; Gladly our hearts and voices raise, In loud and grateful songs of praise, And to the listening world proclaim Our great Redeemer’s glorious name. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Spirit of the Psalms, 1829

Modern Christianity

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: How vainly do the heathen strive Lyrics: 1. How vainly do the heathen strive To falsify our Master’s word, Who teach us that we may godly live Yet never suffer for our Lord; In ancient times the fact allow, But say, the world is Christian now. 2. Christian the world of drunkards is, The world of whoremongers and thieves, The slaves of foul and fair excess; Whoe’er the Christian rite receives, Led from the font at Satan’s will, Haters of Christ, and Christians still. 3. The devilish, and the sensual crowd, Who as brute beasts their lusts obey, Lovers of pleasure more than God, Who dance, and curse, and fight and play, Monsters of vice, our nature’s shame, All hell assumes the Christian name. 4. Yet still when Antichrist prevails, And Satan sits in Moses’ chair, The Gospel truths are idle tales, No cross, no Holy Ghost is there, The heathen world will Christian seem, And bid us take the rule from them. 5. The temple of the Lord are we, (The synagogue of Satan cry) We need not persecuted be Or cruelly ourselves deny: Come see, ye fools, who sigh and grieve, How much at ease we Christians live. 6. We are the men—of wealth and state, Of pomp, and fashionable ease, Honor, and power, and pleasure wait The silken sons of downy peace; And lo! we glide secure and even Down a broad flowery way—to Heaven. 7. While house to house, and field to field, And living we to living join The gazing crowd obeisance yield And praise the slick and smooth Divine Who saves them all the madman’s care, The drudgery of faith, and prayer. 8. No fanciful enthusiasts we To look for inspiration here, To dream from sin to be set free Or hope to feel the Spirit near, Or know our sins on earth forgiven, Or madly give up all for Heaven! Used With Tune: SAGINA (Short) Text Sources: The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, by S. T. Kimbrough, Jr., & Oliver A. Beckerlegge (Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press, 1992), pages 198-9

The Silence of Faith

Author: Horatius Bonar Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: I cannot master time and space Lyrics: 1 I cannot master time and space, Nor bid impetuous ages stay; I cannot alter noon and night, Nor turn the shadows into day. I may not span unmeasured skies, Nor grasp the Pleiads in my hand; The far and near, the great and small I see, but cannot understand. I helpless sit, hemmed in by power And will superior to my own, Encompassed round by laws unseen, Controlled by all, controlling none; Yet I can lean on Him who guides The sky, and sea, and faithful tides. 2 I cannot bid the tomb disgorge The trophies of the tyrant’s power; I cannot charm the spoiler’s hate, Nor flush again one pallid flower. A mortal ’mid the mortal here, I mourn the silent, sad decay Of all that makes this world so fair, But cannot bid one radiance stay. Fain would I loose the chain of ill That fetters this sad, tortured earth, Yet I can but its wrongs and woes Commit to Him who gave it birth. And to the Living One I fly For health and immortality. 3 The current of one human will Is far too strong for me to stem; The rushing flood of a thousand wills, How can I hope to baffle them? I cannot alter right and wrong, Nor change the false into the true; I cannot judge the Judge of all, His thoughts, His ways, His words review. He speaks! I hear! O voice supreme, Beyond all voices sweet, sublime! He the eternal, wise and true, And I bemisted child of time. To Him in foolishness I come, Before Him reverent and dumb. 4 I see the years like billows break Upon the passive strand of time, And as they break, sweep off in turn Man’s works of every age and clime. Who, what am I amid the wreck Of all this beauty, love, and power, O’er which I weep, but whose decay I cannot hinder for an hour? The true is never obsolete, The never old is never stale; I guard the gold of ancient mines, And gather gems, though few and pale; I call them fair—as fair as when They dropped from God’s bright Heav’n for men. Used With Tune: [I cannot master time and space] Text Sources: Hymns of the Nativity, and Other Pieces (London: James Nisbet, 1879)

Before The Great Jehovah's Bar

Author: Rowland Hill, 1744-1833 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 13 hymnals First Line: Before the great Jehovah’s bar Lyrics: 1 Before the great Jehovah’s bar Soon must assembled worlds appear, And every word, and deed, and thought Shall into judgment then be brought. Then all shall hear their righteous doom Of wrath, or endless joys to come; And each receive his just reward Of bliss or vengeance from the Lord. 2 Dear Lord, it was Thine highest joy, To save where sin did once destroy; While thundering vengeance rolls above, We trust in Thy redeeming love. Hail! God of unexampled grace, All Heav’n shall sound Thine endless praise; High glories to the dying Lamb, Who death, by His own death, o’ercame. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Collection of Psalms and Hymns 7th ed. by Rowland Hill (London: Theodore Page, 1810)

O God of Light

Author: Arthur S. Booth-Clibborn Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: O God of light, O God of love Lyrics: 1. O God of light, O God of love, Shine on my soul from Heaven above! Let sin appear in Thy pure ray As black as on the judgment day; Let perfect love apply the test, And all that’s wrong make manifest. 2. O take Thy plummet and Thy line, Apply them to this heart of mine, And thus reveal each crooked place, By contrast with true righteousness! Let holy truth condemn each sham; Show what Thou art, and what I am. 3. O smite and spare not, faithful God! A Father’s hand still holds the rod; O make my sin-stained conscience smart, And write Thy law upon my heart So plainly, that my will shall bow In full surrender, here and now! 4. Work on in me Thy perfect will, In me Thy promise, Lord, fulfill; O make me quick to fight for Thee, And set my soul in liberty! My soul can rest in nothing less Than in a spotless holiness. Used With Tune: SAGINA (Short) Text Sources: Salvation Army's War Cry, April 13, 1895

Faith Means We're Sure

Author: Susan H. Peterson Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Faith means we're sure of what we hope to get Lyrics: 1. Faith means we’re sure of what we hope to get; We’re certain of the things that we do not see. By faith we know that God made the world; What’s here now was not made from what was seen. Abel by faith offered God a better sacrifice; And Enoch, too, by faith died not, but from this life did rise. Though they are gone, they speak this word: That without faith, none can please the Lord. 2. It was by faith that Noah built the ark, When warned by God of things that were yet to pass. Since he had faith, God did spare his life, And made him an heir of His righteousness. Abraham, too, when God said to leave his home behind, Obeyed and went, though he knew not the land he was to find. Though they are gone, they speak this word: That without faith, none can please the Lord. 3. It was by faith that Abr’ham had a son, Then offered him to God as a sacrifice. Faith upheld Moses in Egypt’s land, And faith let a lamb pay the firstborn’s price. By faith the people passed through the sea as on dry land, And faith was why the walls of Jericho just could not stand. Though they are gone, they speak this word: That without faith, none can please the Lord. 4. All these still lived by faith until they died, Receiving not the things that had been made known. They only saw them as from afar; They knew that their country was not their own. God therefore was not ashamed to be named as their Lord; For they believed that He was real and would their faith reward. Oh, give me faith to trust Your Word, That by my life I may please You, Lord. Used With Tune: SAGINA

Than Tongue can Tell

Author: J. E. Hall Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 20 hymnals First Line: The love that Jesus had for me Refrain First Line: His love is more than tongue can tell! Topics: The Gospel Used With Tune: SAGINA

Not Till The Freezing Blast Is Still

Author: John Keble Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Not till the freezing blast is still, Till freely leaps the sparkling rill, And gales sweep soft from summer skies, As o’er a sleeping infant’s eyes A mother’s kiss; ere calls like these, No sunny gleam awakes the trees, Nor dare the tender flowerets show Their bosoms to th’ uncertain glow. 2 Why then, in sad and wintry time, Her heav’ns all dark with doubt and crime, Why lifts the Church her drooping head, As though her evil hour were fled? Is she less wise than leaves of spring, Or birds that cower with folded wing? What sees she in this lowering sky To tempt her meditative eye? 3 She has a charm, a word of fire, A pledge of love that cannot tire; By tempests, earthquakes, and by wars, By rushing waves and falling stars, By every sign her Lord foretold, She sees the world is waxing old, And through that last and direst storm Descries by faith her Savior’s form. 4 Not surer does each tender gem, Set in the fig tree’s polished stem, Foreshow the summer season bland, Than these dread signs Thy mighty hand: But, oh! frail hearts, and spirits dark! The season’s flight unwarned we mark, But miss the Judge behind the door, For all the light of sacred lore: 5 Yet is He there; beneath our eaves Each sound His wakeful ear receives: Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill, Your Lord is listening: peace, be still. Christ watches by a Christian’s hearth, Be silent, "vain deluding mirth," Till in thine altered voice be known Somewhat of resignation’s tone. 6 But chiefly ye should lift your gaze Above the world’s uncertain haze, And look with calm unwavering eye On the bright fields beyond the sky, Ye, who your Lord’s commission bear, His way of mercy to prepare: Angels He calls ye: be your strife To lead on earth an angel’s life. 7 Think not of rest; though dreams be sweet, Start up, and ply your heav’nward feet. Is not God’s oath upon your head, Ne’er to sink back on slothful bed, Never again your loins untie, Nor let your torches waste and die, Till, when the shadows thickest fall, Ye hear your Master’s midnight call? Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: The Christian Year, 1827

Come, Holy Ghost, All-Quickening Fire

Appears in 36 hymnals First Line: Come, Holy ghost, all-quick'ning fire Used With Tune: [Come, Holy ghost, all-quick'ning fire]

Object of All Our Knowledge Here

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1. Object of all our knowledge here, Our one Desire, and Hope below, Jesus, the Crucified, draw near, And with Thy sad disciples go: Our thoughts and words to Thee are known, We commune of Thyself alone. 2. How can it be, our reason cries, That God should leave His throne above? Is it for man th’Immortal dies? For man, who tramples on His love? For man, who nailed Him to the tree? O Love! O God! He dies for me! 3. Why then, if Thou for me hast died, Dost Thou not yet Thyself impart? We hoped to feel Thy blood applied, To find Thee risen in our heart, Redeemed from all iniquity, Saved, to the utmost saved, thro’ Thee. 4. Have we not then believed in vain, By Christ unsanctified, unfreed? In us He is not ris’n again, We know not but He still is dead, No life, no righteousness we have, Our hopes seem buried in His grave. 5. Ah! Lord, if Thou indeed art ours, If Thou for us hast burst the tomb, Visit us with Thy quickening powers, Come to Thy mournful followers, come, Thyself to Thy weak members join, And fill us with the life divine. 6. Thee, the great Prophet sent from God, Mighty in deed and word we own; Thou hast on some the grace bestowed, Thy rising in their hearts made known; They publish Thee to life restored, Attesting they have seen the Lord. 7. Alas for us, whose eyes are held! Why cannot we our Savior see? With us Thou art yet still concealed: O might we hear one word from Thee! Speak, and to our unbelief reprove, Our baseness to mistrust Thy love. 8. Fools as we are, and slow of heart, So backward to believe the Word! The Prophets’ only aim Thou art: They sang the sufferings of their Lord, Thy life for ours a ransom given, Thy rising to ensure our Heaven. 9. Ought not our Lord the death to die, And then the glorious life to live? To stoop; and then to go up on high? The pain, and then the joy receive? His blood, the purchase price lay down, Endure the cross, and claim the crown? 10. Ought not the members all to pass The way their Head had passed before? Thro’ sufferings perfected He was, The garment dipped in blood He wore, That we with Him might die, and rise And bear His nature to the skies! Used With Tune: SAGINA (Short) Text Sources: Hymns for Our Lord's Resurrection (London: William Strahan, 1746), number 5

怎能如此，像我這樣罪人， (And can it be that I should gain)

Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 4 hymnals Lyrics: 怎能如此──像我這樣罪人，也蒙寶血救贖大恩？主為我受痛苦鞭傷，也為我死在十架上？奇異的愛，怎能如此──我主我神為我受死？何等奇妙！永生主竟受死！有誰能解釋這奧祕？神聖之愛，廣闊深長，最高天使也難測量，上主憐憫，超過猜想，世人都當敬拜景仰。我主離開天上寶座榮華。無量恩惠白白賜下，謙卑虛已，顯彰慈愛，流血救贖亞當後代，恩典憐愛，無邊無涯，罪人像我，竟蒙厚愛。我靈受困，多年在牢獄中；被罪包圍，黑暗重重；主眼發出復活榮光，我靈甦醒，滿室光明！枷鎖脫落，心靈獲釋，我就起來跟隨主行。不再定罪，心中除盡憂愁；我擁有主並祂所有。主內生活讓祂居首，穿起義袍聖潔無垢；坦然無懼到寶座前，藉主救贖，獲得冠冕。副歌：奇異的愛，怎能如此，我主我神，竟為我死！ Used With Tune: SAGINA

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