Hymns and Spiritual Songs eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 211 pages of information about Hymns and Spiritual Songs.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 211 pages of information about Hymns and Spiritual Songs.

2 The burden of our weighty guilt
Would sink us down to flames,
And threatening vengeance rolls above
To crush our feeble frames.

3 Almighty goodness cries, “Forbear;”
And straight the thunder stays;
And dare we now provoke his wrath,
And weary out his grace?

4 Lord, we have long abus’d thy love,
Too long indulg’d our sin;
Our aching hearts e’en bleed to see
What rebels we have been.

5 No more, ye lusts, shall ye command,
No more will we obey;
Stretch out, O God, thy conquering hand,
And drive thy foes away.

Hymn 2:106. 
Repentance at the cross.

1 Oh, if my soul was form’d for woe,
How would I vent my sighs! 
Repentance should like rivers flow
From both my streaming eyes.

2 ’Twas for my sins, my dearest Lord
Hung on the cursed tree,
And groan’d away a dying life,
For thee, my soul, for thee.

3 O how I hate those lusts of mine
That crucify’d my God,
Those sins that pierc’d and nail’d his flesh
Fast to the fatal wood!

4 Yes, my Redeemer, they shall die,
My heart has so decreed,
Nor will I spare the guilty things
That made my Saviour bleed.

5 Whilst with a melting broken heart
My murder’d Lord I view,
I’ll raise revenge against my sins,
And slay the murderers too.

Hymn 2:107. 
The everlasting absence of God intolerable.

1 That awful day will surely come,
Th’ appointed hour makes haste,
When I must stand before my Judge,
And pass the solemn test.

2 Thou lovely chief of all my joys,
Thou sovereign of my heart,
How could I bear to hear thy voice
Pronounce the sound, “Depart?”

3 [The thunder of that dismal word,
Would so torment my ear,
’Twould tear my soul asunder, Lord,
With most tormenting fear.]

4 [What, to be banish’d from my life,
And yet forbid to die! 
To linger in eternal pain,
Yet death for ever fly!]

5 O wretched state of deep despair,
To see my God remove,
And fix my doleful station where
I must not taste his Love.

6 Jesus, I throw my arms around,
And hang upon thy breast;
Without a gracious smile from thee
My spirit cannot rest.

7 O tell me that my worthless name
Is graven on thy hands;
Shew me some promise in thy book
Where my salvation stands!

8 [Give me one kind assuring word,
To sink my fears again,
And cheerfully my soul shall wait
Her threescore years and ten.]

Hymn 2:108. 
Access to the throne of grace by a Mediator.

1 Come, let us lift our joyful eyes
Up to the courts above,
And smile to see our Father there
Upon a throne of love.

2 Once ’twas a seat of dreadful wrath,
And shot devouring flame;
Our God appear’d consuming fire,
And vengeance was his name.

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