Prayer

The sinner born of God

Author: William Gadsby
Published in 1 hymnal

Representative Text

1 The sinner born of God,
To God will pour his prayer,
In sighs, or groans, or words expressed,
Or in a falling tear.

2 The feelings of his heart
Ascend to the Most High;
And though the Lord awhile forbear,
His needs he will supply.

3 A form of words may please
A sinner dead in sin;
But quickened sinners want to pray
As prompted from within.

4 The Holy Ghost indites
All real, vital prayer;
And prayer indited by the Lord,
The Lord will surely hear.

Source: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #725

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Author: William Gadsby

Gadsby, William , was born in 1773 at Attleborough, in Warwickshire. In 1793 he joined the Baptist church at Coventry, and in 1798 began to preach. In 1800 a chapel was built for him at Desford, in Leicestershire, and two years later another in the town of Hinckley. In 1805 he removed to Manchester, becoming minister of a chapel in Rochdale Boad, where he continued until his death, in January, 1844. Gadsby was for many years exceedingly popular as a preacher of the High Calvinist faith, and visited in that capacity most parts of England. He published The Nazarene's Songs, being a composition of Original Hymns, Manchester, 1814; and Hymns on the Death of the Princess Charlotte, Manchester, 1817. In 1814 he also published A Selection of Hymn… Go to person page >

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