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Fight the good fight

Appears in 490 hymnals Used With Tune: ST. CRISPIN

Behold The Potter And The Clay

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 26 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Behold the potter and the clay, He forms his vessels as he please; Such is our God, and such are we, The subjects of His high decrees. 2 Doth not the workman’s power extend O’er all the mass, which part to choose And mold it for a nobler end, And which to leave for viler use? 3 May not the sovereign Lord on high Dispense His favors as He will, Choose some to life, while others die, And yet be just and gracious still? 4 What if, to make His terror known, He lets His patience long endure, Suff’ring vile rebels to go on, And seal their own destruction sure? 5 What if He means to show His grace, And His electing love employs To make out some of mortal race, And form them fit for heav’nly joys? 6 Shall man reply against the Lord, And call his maker’s ways unjust, The thunder of whose dreadful word Can crush a thousand worlds to dust? 7 But, O my soul! if truths so bright Should dazzle and confound thy sight, Yet still His written will obey, And wait the great decisive day. 8 Then shall He make His justice known, And the whole world before His throne With joy or terror shall confess The glory of His righteousness. Used With Tune: ST. CRISPIN Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, 1707

Today, if you will hear his voice

Author: Miller Appears in 197 hymnals Used With Tune: REPENTANCE

Upon the Gospel's Sacred Page

Author: John Bowring Appears in 107 hymnals Used With Tune: ST. CRISPIN

And Is The Gospel Peace And Love?

Author: Anne Steele Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 195 hymnals Lyrics: 1 And is the Gospel peace and love? Such let our conversation be; The serpent blended with the dove, Wisdom and meek simplicity. 2 Whene’er the angry passions rise, And tempt our thoughts or tongues to strife, To Jesus let us lift our eyes, Bright pattern of the Christian life! 3 O how benevolent and kind! How mild! how ready to forgive! Be this the temper of our mind, And these the rules by which we live. 4 To do His heavenly Father’s will, Was His employment and delight; Humility and holy zeal Shone through His life, divinely bright! 5 Dispensing good where’er He came, The labors of His life were love; O, if we love the Savior’s name, Let His divine example move. 6 But ah, how blind! how weak we are! How frail! how apt to turn aside! Lord, we depend upon Thy care, And ask Thy Spirit for our guide. 7 Thy fair example may we trace, To teach us what we ought to be; Make us by Thy transforming grace, Dear Savior, daily more like Thee. Used With Tune: ST. CRISPIN Text Sources: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760

Say Then, Ye Worms Of Earth

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Say then, ye worms of earth, to whom Lyrics: 1 Say then, ye worms of earth, to whom Will ye your glorious God compare? Vainly thro’ all His works ye roam, And find Jehovah’s likeness there. 2 The vile idolater belies His image with a golden shrine, To counterfeit the Godhead tries; And stocks and stones become divine. 3 Man his own deity reveres By self delight, and self esteem, Whate’er the sinner hopes, or fears Desires, or loves, is God to him. 4 But have ye not His being known, And clearly seen by nature’s light? Have not the ancient fathers shown, And you confessed the Infinite? 5 The heavens His glorious power proclaim, Th’invisible on earth is showed; Nature is written with His name, And all things speak their builder God. 6 Creation to His law submits, His rule He over all maintains, High on the globe of Heaven He sits, And undisturbed for ever reigns. 7 Th’ inhabitants of earth from thence, As grasshoppers His eye beholds; His hand, and power, and providence The curtain of the heavens unfolds. 8 ’Tis He who stretched them out, ’tis He Who still the wide pavilion spreads, That blue ethereal canopy, And draws it o’er His creatures’ heads. 9 Princes and kings that dare withstand Their uncontrolled Creator’s sway, Shall sink behind His mighty hand, And fall, and fade, and die away. 10 Planted awhile, or sown below, Their stock accursed shall ne’er take root; The Lord upon their pride shall blow, Wither the flower, and blast the fruit. 11 Say then, ye abject worms, to whom Will ye your glorious God compare? Who shall His holiness presume To match, or who His power shall dare? 12 Lift up your eyes to things on high, Nor fix on earth your groveling thought; Who built yon azure vaulted sky? Who spoke those beauteous orbs from naught? 13 God only wise, and great, and strong, Made them to run their heavenly race; Knowledge and might to God belong, Honor, and majesty and praise. 14 Their radiant hosts He marshals right, Their nature, names and number knows; He bids them in their courses fight, And blast their great Creator’s foes. 15 They hear, and each His will performs, And lo! to man they ever call, "Lift up your eyes, ye abject worms, Adore the glorious Cause of All!" Used With Tune: ST. CRISPIN Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems 1742

The Lord Our Maker

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 9 hymnals First Line: All that I am I owe to Thee Lyrics: 1 All that I am I owe to Thee, Thy wisdom, Lord, has fashioned me; I give my Maker thankful praise, Whose wondrous works my soul amaze. 2 Ere into being I was bro't, Thy eye did see, and in Thy tho't My life in all its perfect plan Was ordered ere my days began. 3 Thy tho'ts, O God, how manifold, More precious unto me than gold! I muse on their infinity, Awaking I am still with Thee. 4 The wicked Thou wilt surely slay, From me let sinners turn away; They speak against the Name divine; I count God's enemies as mine. 5 Search me, O God, my heart discern, Try me, my inmost tho't to learn; And lead me, if in sin I stray, To choose the everlasting way. Topics: Bible Precious; Christ Providences of; Christians Graces of; Companions Evil; Fidelity; God Attributes of; God Creator of All; God Omniscience of; Heart Claimed of God; Heart Searching of; Self-Examination; Sin Hatred of; The Wicked Separation from Scripture: Psalm 139 Used With Tune: ST. CRISPIN