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Jesus, I Thee Adore
Author: Henry Collins Appears in 218 hymnals First Line: Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All Refrain First Line: Jesus, my Lord, I Thee adore Used With Tune: SAGINA
Jesus, I Thee Adore
And Can It Be That I Should Gain?
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 292 hymnals First Line: And can it be that I should gain Lyrics: 1. And can it be that I should gain
An interest in the Savior’s blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain—
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! How can it be,
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
Amazing love! How can it be,
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
2. ’Tis mystery all: th’Immortal dies:
Who can explore His strange design?
In vain the firstborn seraph tries
To sound the depths of love divine.
’Tis mercy all! Let earth adore,
Let angel minds inquire no more.
’Tis mercy all! Let earth adore;
Let angel minds inquire no more.
3. He left His Father’s throne above
So free, so infinite His grace—
Emptied Himself of all but love,
And bled for Adam’s helpless race:
’Tis mercy all, immense and free,
For O my God, it found out me!
’Tis mercy all, immense and free,
For O my God, it found out me!
4. Long my imprisoned spirit lay,
Fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray—
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.
5. Still the small inward voice I hear,
That whispers all my sins forgiven;
Still the atoning blood is near,
That quenched the wrath of hostile Heaven.
I feel the life His wounds impart;
I feel the Savior in my heart.
I feel the life His wounds impart;
I feel the Savior in my heart.
6. No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus, and all in Him, is mine;
Alive in Him, my living Head,
And clothed in righteousness divine,
Bold I approach th’eternal throne,
And claim the crown, through Christ my own.
Bold I approach th’eternal throne,
And claim the crown, through Christ my own. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Psalms and Hymns, 1738
And Can It Be That I Should Gain?
Behold the Servant of the Lord
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 51 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Behold the servant of the Lord!
I wait Thy guiding eye to feel,
To hear and keep Thy every word,
To prove and do Thy perfect will,
Joyful from my own works to cease,
Glad to fulfill all righteousness.
2. Me if Thy grace vouchsafe to use,
Meanest of all Thy creatures, me,
The deed, the time, the manner choose,
Let all my fruit be found of Thee;
Let all my works in Thee be wrought,
By Thee to full perfection brought.
3. My every weak, though good design,
O’errule, or change, as seems Thee meet;
Jesus, let all my work be Thine!
Thy work, O Lord, is all complete,
And pleasing in Thy Father’s sight;
Thou only hast done all things right.
4. Here then to Thee Thy own I leave;
Mold as Thou wilt Thy passive clay;
But let me all Thy stamp receive,
But let me all Thy words obey,
Serve with a single heart and eye,
And to Thy glory live and die. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749
Behold the Servant of the Lord
The Book – Let All Bow Down And Read
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: The book—let all bow down and read Lyrics: 1 The book—let all bow down and read—
The book of God to sinners given,
The birth of Abraham’s blessed Seed,
Of David’s Son, sent down from Heaven!
Stupendous mystery divine,
Gospel to ages past unknown!
Heathens and Jews through Jesus join,
And God and man in Christ are one.
2 Father of Jesus Christ, our Lord,
Our Father through His birth Thou art;
Thy Spirit testifies the Word
Made flesh, to every faithful heart;
In us Thy new-born Son reveal,
Thy Son from all eternity,
And give Him still on earth to dwell,
By faith conceived and formed in me. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868)
The Book – Let All Bow Down And Read
What Are These Wounds, So Deep, So Wide?
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: What are these wounds, so deep, so wide Lyrics: "What are these wounds, so deep, so wide,
That in Thy sacred hands appear?"
"By My own nation crucified,
By My own friends I suffer here:
My household foes, who bear My name,
Have nailed Me to this shameful tree;
And every day I wounded am,
Thou poor, backsliding soul—by thee!" Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)
What Are These Wounds, So Deep, So Wide?
How Shall the Young Direct Their Way?
Author: Anonymous Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 26 hymnals Lyrics: 1. How shall the young direct their way?
What light shall be their perfect guide?
Thy Word, O Lord, will safely lead,
If in its wisdom they confide.
Sincerely I have sought Thee, Lord,
O let me not from Thee depart;
To know Thy will and keep from sin
Thy Word I cherish in my heart.
2. O blessèd Lord, teach me Thy law,
Thy righteous judgments I declare;
Thy testimonies make me glad,
For they are wealth beyond compare.
Upon Thy precepts and Thy ways
My heart will meditate with awe;
Thy Word shall be my chief delight,
And I will not forget Thy law. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: The Psalter (Pittsburgh: The United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912)
How Shall the Young Direct Their Way?
That Man Whose Impious Tongue Denies
Author: Harriet Auber Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 That man whose impious tongue denies
The God who every want supplies,
Or whose unhallowed actions prove
He feels nor gratitude nor love,
Ranks far beneath the brute, who knows
What hand his humble meal bestows.
2 Yet, did not such heavenly grace abound,
Such would each son of man be found;
For when the Almighty from His throne
Looked on the earth, behold not one
The narrow path of virtue trod,
Or kept the precepts of his God.
3 But He, who with a single breath
Could doom a guilty world to death,
With mercy’s gently pleading voice,
Offers salvation to our choice;
Freedom from sin’s debasing chain,
And strength fresh conflicts to sustain.
4 O haste we then—with joy embrace
This rich, this freely offered grace;
Gladly our hearts and voices raise,
In loud and grateful songs of praise,
And to the listening world proclaim
Our great Redeemer’s glorious name. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Spirit of the Psalms, 1829
That Man Whose Impious Tongue Denies
Ancient Of Days! The Years Roll On
Author: Thomas Holme Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Ancient of Days! The years roll on
Obedient to Thy sole decree;
And when their destined work is done,
Merge in the past eternity.
Thousand of years have sped their way,
Since poised by Thine almighty hand;
Sun, moon, and stars, in bright array,
Have wheeled in spheres at Thy command.
2 Firm as the heavenly hosts appear,
The lines which future things portray,
Converge in one predestined year,
When Heaven and earth shall pass away.
Whate’er that consummation be,
Oh, let me, Lord, Thy mercy prove
In worlds upheaved, from danger free,
Within the covert of Thy love!
3 Ancient of Days! ’Tis Thine to say—
Man vainly tries to scan th’unknown—
How distant or how near the day,
When we must stand before Thy throne.
Through each new year vouchsafed to me,
Be this my being’s aim and end,
Thine here to live, in Heaven with Thee
A blessed eternity to spend. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poetry (Christian Book Society, 1861)
Ancient Of Days! The Years Roll On
Modern Christianity
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: How vainly do the heathen strive Lyrics: 1. How vainly do the heathen strive
To falsify our Master’s word,
Who teach us that we may godly live
Yet never suffer for our Lord;
In ancient times the fact allow,
But say, the world is Christian now.
2. Christian the world of drunkards is,
The world of whoremongers and thieves,
The slaves of foul and fair excess;
Whoe’er the Christian rite receives,
Led from the font at Satan’s will,
Haters of Christ, and Christians still.
3. The devilish, and the sensual crowd,
Who as brute beasts their lusts obey,
Lovers of pleasure more than God,
Who dance, and curse, and fight and play,
Monsters of vice, our nature’s shame,
All hell assumes the Christian name.
4. Yet still when Antichrist prevails,
And Satan sits in Moses’ chair,
The Gospel truths are idle tales,
No cross, no Holy Ghost is there,
The heathen world will Christian seem,
And bid us take the rule from them.
5. The temple of the Lord are we,
(The synagogue of Satan cry)
We need not persecuted be
Or cruelly ourselves deny:
Come see, ye fools, who sigh and grieve,
How much at ease we Christians live.
6. We are the men—of wealth and state,
Of pomp, and fashionable ease,
Honor, and power, and pleasure wait
The silken sons of downy peace;
And lo! we glide secure and even
Down a broad flowery way—to Heaven.
7. While house to house, and field to field,
And living we to living join
The gazing crowd obeisance yield
And praise the slick and smooth Divine
Who saves them all the madman’s care,
The drudgery of faith, and prayer.
8. No fanciful enthusiasts we
To look for inspiration here,
To dream from sin to be set free
Or hope to feel the Spirit near,
Or know our sins on earth forgiven,
Or madly give up all for Heaven! Used With Tune: SAGINA (Short) Text Sources: The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, by S. T. Kimbrough, Jr., & Oliver A. Beckerlegge (Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press, 1992), pages 198-9
Modern Christianity
O Happy Nation
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 30 hymnals First Line: O happy nation, where the Lord Lyrics: 1. O happy nation, where the Lord
Reveals the treasure of His Word,
And builds His Church, His earthly throne!
His eye the heathen world surveys,
He formed their hearts, He knows their ways;
But God their maker is unknown.
2. Let kings rely upon their host,
And of his strength the champion boast;
In vain they boast, in vain rely;
In vain we trust the brutal force,
Or speed, or courage, of a horse,
To guard his rider or to fly.
3. The eye of Thy compassion, Lord,
Doth more secure defense afford
When death or dangers threatening stand;
Thy watchful eye preserves the just,
Who make Thy name their fear and trust,
When wars or famine waste the land.
4. In sickness, or the bloody field,
Thou our physician, Thou our shield,
Send us salvation from Thy throne:
We wait to see Thy goodness shine;
Let us rejoice in help divine,
For all our hope is God alone.
Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719
O Happy Nation
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