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How Oft Doth Beauty Lead To Sin
Author: Susanna Harrison Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 How oft doth beauty lead to sin,
And tempt the heart to stray;
It charms awhile, then hides again,
And soon it fades away!
2 Not all the art, and pains, and care
Of man can make it sure;
Nor can the fairest of the fair
The transient bliss secure.
3 Sickness and pain may soon disgrace
The most admirèd charms:
Soon must they sleep in death’s embrace,
And lose their lovely forms.
4 How vain is beauty, then, my Muse!
Unworthy of thy lays:
Turn, and a nobler subject choose,
Let virtue have thy praise.
5 How wise is she whose constant care
Pursues the heav’nly road:
She shall the Eternal’s favor share,
And every real good.
6 She ever shuns the snares of vice
How circumspect her ways!
Wise in simplicity she is;
Unsought her general praise.
7 If she is called to mingle souls,
How cautious is her choice;
No vain pretense her love controls,
She scorns the flatterer’s voice.
8 United, see, illustrious shines
The tender, prudent wife;
Humility her soul refines,
Grace governs all her life.
9 What undissembled love she bears
To him who has her hand:
How does she soften all his cares,
And all his woes attend!
10 Is she a friend? How kind and true!
Her charity, how pure!
Her friendship is not like the dew
That passes in an hour.
11 She shall be praised when beauty fails,
And years and age increase:
She shall be blest while grace prevails,
And end her days in peace. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Songs in the Night (Ipswich, England: Punchard & Jermyn, 1780)
How Oft Doth Beauty Lead To Sin
How Should The Sons Of Adam's Race
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 37 hymnals First Line: How should the sons of Adam’s race Lyrics: 1 How should the sons of Adam’s race
Be pure before their God?
If He contend in righteousness,
We fall beneath His rod.
2 To vindicate my words and thoughts
I’ll make no more pretense;
Not one of all my thousand faults
Can bear a just defense.
3 Strong is His arm, His heart is wise;
What vain perfumers dare
Against their Maker’s hand to rise,
Or tempt th’unequal war?
4 Mountains by His almighty wrath
From their old seats are torn;
He shakes the earth, from south to north,
And all her pillars mourn.
5 He bids the sun forbear to rise;
Th’obedient sun forbears:
His hand with sackcloth spreads the skies,
And seals up all the stars.
6 He walks upon the stormy sea;
Flies on the stormy wind:
There’s none can trace His wondrous way,
Or His dark footsteps find. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, 1707
How Should The Sons Of Adam's Race
The Faded Leaf
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: O, fragile glory of the bowers Lyrics: 1 O, fragile glory of the bowers,
Ye fall no more to rise;
But bright and glorious hope is ours,
A hope beyond the skies.
2 We trust, when fades this feeble form,
And low our bodies rest,
Beyond the reach of blight or storm,
To bloom among the blest.
3 He, who bestowed upon the tree
The leaves that gaily wave,
To man a noble destiny,
A part immortal gave.
4 Then he, with faith’s aspiring eye,
Firm fixed on things above,
Might gain at last a home on high,
Through his Redeemer’s love. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: The Aeolian Harp by Mary E. Herbert and Sarah Herbert (Halifax: E. G. Fuller, 1857)
The Faded Leaf
From Thee, My God, All Blessings Spring
Author: John Needham Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 From Thee, my God, all blessings spring,
To Thee my life I owe;
My lungs by Thee were bid to heave,
My feet were taught to go.
2 Thy wool me clothes, Thy bread I eat,
Thy streams my thirst allay:
Each night Thou spread’st a tent around,
Kind guardian through the day.
3 A friend, that medicine sweet of life,
To Thee, my God, I owe:
Health, credit, liberty, and peace
All from Thy bounty flow.
4 Author of good! I praise Thy name,
On Thee I still depend:
Give me this day my daily bread,
All needful blessings send.
5 If more Thou giv’st, I thank Thee, Lord;
If less, still kind Thou art:
Content with this, may I secure
That sure and better part.
6 Next to Thy right may I have claim
To all that I call mine;
My honest labors prosper, Lord,
Thus give me that is Thine.
7 All anxious cares that wound my peace,
Lord, banish from my breast;
The future I would leave with Thee,
For Thou wilt do the best. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Hymns Devotional and Moral on Various Subjects (Bristol, England: S. Farley, 1768)
From Thee, My God, All Blessings Spring
Come, Humble Sinner
Author: Edmund Jones Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 705 hymnals First Line: Come, humble sinner, in whose breast Lyrics: 1. Come, humble sinner, in whose breast,
A thousand thoughts revolve,
Come, with your guilt and fear oppressed,
And make this last resolve.
2. I’ll go to Jesus, though my sin
Like mountains round me close;
I know His courts, I’ll enter in,
Whatever may oppose.
3. Prostrate I’ll lie before His throne,
And there my guilt confess,
I’ll tell Him, I’m a wretch undone,
Without His sovereign grace.
4. I’ll to the gracious King approach,
Whose scepter pardon gives;
Perhaps he command my touch,
And then the suppliant lives.
5. Perhaps He will admit my plea,
Perhaps will hear my prayer;
But, if I perish, I will pray,
And perish only there.
6. I can but perish if I go;
I am resolved to try;
But if I stay away, I know
I must forever die.
7. But, if I die with mercy sought,
When I the King have tried,
This were to die (delightful thought!)
As sinner never died. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, by John Rippon, 1787
Come, Humble Sinner
By Faith We Find the Place Above
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 32 hymnals Lyrics: 1. By faith we find the place above,
The Rock that rent in twain;
Beneath the shade of divine love,
And in the clefts remain.
2. Jesus, to Thy dear wounds we flee,
We sink into Thy side;
Assured that all who trust in Thee
Shall evermore abide.
3. Then let the thundering trumpet sound,
The latest lightning glare,
The mountains melt, the solid ground
Dissolve as liquid air.
4. The huge celestial bodies roll,
Amidst that general fire,
And shrivel as a parchment scroll,
And all in smoke expire!
5. Yet still the Lord, the Savior reigns,
When nature is destroyed,
And no created thing remains
Throughout the flaming void.
6. Sublime upon His azure throne,
He speaks the almighty word;
His fiat is obeyed! ’tis done;
And Paradise restored.
7. So be it! let this system end,
This ruinous earth and skies,
The new Jerusalem descend,
The new creation rise!
8. Thy power omnipotent assume,
Thy brightest majesty!
And when Thou dost in glory come,
My Lord, remember me!
9. These verses are part of a larger hymn. Here are the remaining verses, shown in Wesley’s hymnal before the ones above.
10. Woe to the men on earth who dwell,
Nor dread the Almighty’s frown,
When God doth all His wrath reveal,
And shower his judgments down!
11. Sinners, expect those heaviest showers,
To meet your God prepare;
For, lo! the seventh angel pours
His phial in the air.
12. Lo! from their seats the mountains leap,
The mountains are not found;
Transported far into the deep,
And in the ocean drowned.
13. Who then shall live, and face the throne,
And face the Judge severe?
When heaven and earth are fled and gone,
O where shall I appear?
14. Now, only now, against that hour
We may a place provide;
Beyond the grave, beyond the power
Of hell, our spirits hide.
15. Firm in the all destroying shock,
May view the final scene;
For, lo! the everlasting Rock
Is cleft to take us in. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Hymns Occasioned by the Earthquake, March 8, 1750, second edition, 1756
By Faith We Find the Place Above
When Peter Boasted, Soon He Fell
Author: John Newton Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 6 hymnals Lyrics: 1. When Peter boasted, soon he fell,
Yet was by grace restored;
His case should be regarded well
By all who fear the Lord.
2. A voice it has, and helping hand,
Backsliders to recall;
And cautions those who think they stand,
Lest suddenly they fall.
3. He said, Whatever others do,
With Jesus I’ll abide;
Yet soon amidst a murderous crew
His suffering Lord denied.
4. He who had been so bold before,
Now trembled like a leaf;
Not only lied, but cursed and swore,
To gain the more belief.
5. While he blasphemed he heard the cock,
And Jesus looked in love;
At once, as if by lightning struck,
His tongue forbore to move.
6. Delivered thus from Satan’s snare
He starts, as from a sleep;
His Savior’s look he could not bear,
But hasted forth to weep.
7. But sure the faithful cock had crowed
A hundred times in vain;
Had not the Lord that look bestowed,
The meaning to explain.
8. As I, like Peter, vows have made,
Yet acted Peter’s part;
So conscience, like the cock, upbraids
My base, ungrateful heart.
9. Lord Jesus, hear a sinner’s cry,
My broken peace renew;
And grant one pitying look, that I
May weep with Peter too. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Olney Hymns (London: W. Oliver, 1779), number 91
When Peter Boasted, Soon He Fell
Since Without Thee We Do No Good
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861 Appears in 7 hymnals Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE
Since Without Thee We Do No Good
On Man, in His Own Image Made
Author: John Newton Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 14 hymnals Lyrics: 1. On man, in His own image made,
How much did God bestow?
The whole creation homage paid,
And owned him lord, below!
2. He dwelt in Eden’s garden, stored
With sweets for every sense;
And there with his descending Lord
He walked in confidence.
3. But O! by sin how quickly changed!
His honor forfeited,
His heart, from God and truth, estranged,
His conscience filled with dread!
4. Now from his maker’s voice he flees,
Which was before his joy:
And thinks to hide, amidst the trees,
From an all seeing eye.
5. Compelled to answer to his name,
With stubbornness and pride
He cast, on God Himself, the blame,
Nor once for mercy cried.
6. But grace, unasked, his heart subdued
And all his guilt forgave;
By faith, the promised seed he viewed,
And felt His pow’r to save.
7. Thus we ourselves would justify,
Though we the law transgress;
Like him, unable to deny,
Unwilling to confess.
8. But when by faith the sinner sees
A pardon bought with blood;
Then he forsakes his foolish pleas,
And gladly turns to God. Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Olney Hymns (London: W. Oliver, 1779), number 1
On Man, in His Own Image Made
Thou Grace Divine, Encircling All
Author: Eliza Scudder Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 73 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Thou grace divine, encircling all,
A soundless, shoreless sea!
Wherein at last our souls must fall
O love of God most free!
2. And though we turn us from thy face,
And wander wide and long,
Thou hold’st us still in Thine embrace,
O love of God most strong!
3. The saddened heart, the restless soul,
The toil worn frame and mind,
Alike confess thy sweet control,
O love of God most kind!
4. And filled and quickened by Thy breath,
Our souls are strong and free,
To rise o’er sin and fear and death,
O love of God, to Thee! Used With Tune: ABIDING GRACE Text Sources: Pictures of the Olden Time, as Shown in the Fortunes of a Family of Pilgrims, by her uncle Edmund H. Sears, 1857
Thou Grace Divine, Encircling All
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