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Though I should seek to wash me clean

Though I should seek to wash me clean

Author: Henry Ustick Onderdonk
Tune: WARD (Scottish)
Published in 30 hymnals

Representative Text

1 Though I should seek to wash me clean
In water of the driven snow,
My soul would yet its spots retain,
And sink in conscious guilt and woe.

2 God's law in all its power divine
Condemns my erring soul to death;
Declares the foulness of its sin,
And show the vileness of its worth.

3 There must a Mediator plead
Whom God and man may both embrace,
With God for man to intercede,
And offer us the purchased grace.

4 And thus the Son of God is slain
To be this Mediator crowned;
In him, my soul, be cleansed from stain,
In him thy righteousness be found.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #348

Author: Henry Ustick Onderdonk

Henry Ustick Onderdonk, Bishop of Pennsylvania, was born in New York, March 16, 1789, and educated at Columbia College, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808, D.D. 1827. Having decided to devote his life to medicine, he studied first in London and then in Edinburgh, receiving his M.D. from that university in 1810. Returning to New York, he began to study theology under Bishop Hobart and was ordained in 1815. He was rector of St. Ann's, Brooklyn, until 1827 when, following a famous controversy, he was elected bishop coadjutor of Pennsylvania, becoming diocesan in 1836 upon the death of Bishop White. He, with W.A. Muhlenberg, q.v., was influential on the committee appointed by General Convention to prepare the so-called Prayer Book Collection, 1826. The… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Though I should seek to wash me clean
Author: Henry Ustick Onderdonk
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Collection of Hymns and Prayers, for Public and Private Worship #64

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A Collection of Sacred Song #29(H14)

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A Collection of Sacred Song #29(H14)

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A Selection of Hymns #100

Book of Common Praise #d590

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Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book with Accompanying Tunes (Second Edition) #110

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Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book #53

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Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book #110

Hymnal of the Reformed Episcopal Church #d128

Hymnal of the Reformed Episcopal Church, adopted in General Council, Chicago, May 1879 #d317

Hymns for Use in Divine Worship ... Seventh-Day Adventists #d1142

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Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, as authorized by the General Convention #14

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Hymns Recommended for use in the Reformed Episcopal Church #180

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Selections from the Psalms of David in Metre #H14

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Songs for the Sanctuary, or Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship #429

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Songs for the Sanctuary; or Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Baptist Ed.) #429

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Songs for the Sanctuary; or, Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Words only) #429

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Songs for the Sanctuary #429

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Songs for the Sanctuary #429

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Songs for the Sanctuary #429

Templi Carmina #d257

The Book of Common Praise #d609

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The Choice #H54

The Choice #H54

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The Harp #317

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The Harp. 2nd ed. #a317

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The Lecture-Room Hymn-Book #H14

The Missionary Tune Book #d86

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The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #348

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