When dangers, woes, or death are nigh

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When dangers, woes, or death are nigh

Author: John Fawcett
Published in 12 hymnals

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1 When dangers woes, or death are night,
Past mercies teach me where to fly;
Thine arm, Almighty God, can aid,
When sickness grieves, and pains invade.

2 To all the various helps of art
Kindly thy healing pow'r impart;
Bethesda's bath refus'd to save
Unless and Angel bless'd the wave.

3 All med'cines act by thy decree,
Receive commission all from thee;
And not a plant which spreads the plains,
But teems with ehlath, when heav'n ordains.

4 Clay and Siloam's pool we find,
At heav'n;s command restor'd the blind;
And Jordan's waters hence were seen
To wash a Syrian leper clean.

5 But grant me nobler favours still,
Grant me to know and do thy will;
Purge my foul soul from ev'ry stain,
And save me from eternal pain.

6 Can such a wretch for pardon sue?
My crimes, my crimes, arise in view,
Arrest my trembling tongue in pray'r,
And pour the horrors of despair.

7 But thou, regard my contrite sighs,
My tortur'd breast, my streaming eyes;
To me thy boundless love extend,
My God, my Father, and my Friend.

8 These lovely Names I ne'er could plead,
Had not thy Son vouchsav'd to bleed;
His Blood procures for human race
Admittance to the Throne of Grace.

9 When sin has shot its poison'd dart,
And conscious guilt corrodes the heart,
His blood is all sufficient found
To draw the shaft, and heal the wound.

10 What arrows piers so deep as sin?
What venom gives such pain within?
Thou great Physician of the soul,
Rebuke my pangs, and make me whole.

11 O! if I trust thy sov'reign skill,
And how submissive to thy will,
Sickness and death shall both agree
To bring me, Lord, at last to thee.

Source: The Whole Book of Psalms: in metre; with hymns suited to the feasts and fasts of the church, and other occasions of public worship #H.XXII

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Author: John Fawcett

An orphan at the age of twelve, John Fawcett (b. Lidget Green, Yorkshire, England, 1740; d. Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, 1817) became apprenticed to a tailor and was largely self-educated. He was converted by the preaching of George Whitefield at the age of sixteen and began preaching soon thereafter. In 1765 Fawcett was called to a small, poor, Baptist country church in Wainsgate, Yorkshire. Seven years later he received a call from the large and influential Carter's Lane Church in London, England. Fawcett accepted the call and preached his farewell sermon. The day of departure came, and his family's belongings were loaded on carts, but the distraught congregation begged him to stay. In Singers and Songs of the Church (1869), Josiah Miller te… Go to person page >

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