True and False Comforts

True and False Comforts O God, whose favourable eyeThe sin-sick soul revives, O God, whose favourable eyeThe sin sick soul revives,Holy and heavenly is the joyThy shining presence gives. Not such as hypocrites suppose,Who with a graceless heartTaste not of thee, but drink a dosePrepared by Satan’s art. Intoxicating joys are theirs,Who while they boast […]

Love Constraining to Obedience

Love Constraining to Obedience No strength of nature can sufficeTo serve the Lord aright: No strength of nature can sufficeTo serve the Lord aright:And what she has she misapplies,For want of clearer light. How long beneath the law I layIn bondage and distress!I toil’d the precept to obey,But toil’d without success. Then, to abstain from […]

My Soul Thirsteth for God

My Soul Thirsteth for God I thirst, but not as once I did,The vain delights of earth to share; I thirst, but not as once I did,The vain delights of earth to share;Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbidThat I should seek my pleasures there. It was the sight of thy dear crossFirst wean’d my soul from […]

Lively Hope and Gracious Fear

Lively Hope and Gracious Fea I was a grovelling creature once,And basely cleaved to earth; I was a grovelling creature once,And basely cleaved to earth;I wanted spirit to renounceThe clod that gave me birth. But God has breathed upon a worm,And sent me from aboveWings such as clothe an angel’s form,The wings of joy and […]

Joy and Peace in Believing

Joy and Peace in Believing O Lord, my best desire fulfil,And help me to resign O Lord, my best desire fulfil,And help me to resignLife, health, and comfort to thy will,And make thy pleasure mine. Why should I shrink at thy command,Whose love forbids my fears?Or tremble at the gracious handThat wipes away my tears? […]

Submission

Submission O Lord, my best desire fulfil,And help me to resign O Lord, my best desire fulfil,And help me to resignLife, health, and comfort to thy will,And make thy pleasure mine. Why should I shrink at thy command,Whose love forbids my fears?Or tremble at the gracious handThat wipes away my tears? No, rather let me […]

Looking Upwards in a Storm

Looking Upwards in a Storm God of my life, to thee I call,Afflicted at thy feet I fall; God of my life, to thee I call,Afflicted at thy feet I fall;When the great water floods prevail,Leave not my trembling heart to fail! Friend of the friendless and the faint,Where should I lodge my deep complaint?Where […]

Temptation

Temptation The billows swell, the winds are high,Clouds overcast my wintry sky; The billows swell, the winds are high,Clouds overcast my wintry sky;Out of the depths to thee I call,My fears are great, my strength is small. O Lord, the pilot’s part perform,And guard and guide me through the storm;Defend me from each threatening ill,Control […]

Welcome Cross

Welcome Cross ‘Tis my happiness belowNot to live without the cross, ‘Tis my happiness belowNot to live without the cross,But the Saviour’s power to know,Sanctifying every loss:Trials must and will befall;But with humble faith to seeLove inscribed upon them all,This is happiness to me. God in Israel sows the seedsOf affliction, pain, and toil;These spring […]

Lovest Thou Me?

Lovest Thou Me? Hark, my soul! it is the Lord;‘Tis thy Saviour, hear his word; Hark, my soul! it is the Lord;‘Tis thy Saviour, hear his word;Jesus speaks, and speaks to thee,“Say, poor sinner, lovest thou me? “I delivered thee when bound,And when bleeding, healed thy wound;Sought thee wandering, set thee right;Turned thy darkness into […]

Jehovah Our Righteousness

Jehovah Our Righteousness My God! how perfect are thy ways!But mine polluted are; My God! how perfect are thy ways!But mine polluted are;Sin twines itself about my praise,And slides into my prayer. When I would speak what thou hast doneTo save me from my sin,I cannot make thy mercies known,But self-applause creeps in. Divine desire, […]

Jehovah-Nissi

Jehovah-Nissi By whom was David taught,To aim the dreadful blow, By whom was David taught,To aim the dreadful blow,When he Goliath fought,And laid the Gittite low?Nor sword nor spear the stripling took,But chose a pebble from the brook. ‘Twas Israel’s God and King,Who sent him to the fight;Who gave him strength to fling,And skill to […]