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Forgive our sins as we forgive

Author: Rosamond E. Herklots, 1905- Appears in 68 hymnals First Line: "Forgive our sins as we forgive" Topics: Cross; Forgiveness / Pardon; Jesus Christ Intercessor / High Priest; Lent; One Life in Christ Peace Scripture: Matthew 6:12-15 Used With Tune: BANGOR

According to thy gracious word

Author: James Montgomery 1771-1854 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 552 hymnals Used With Tune: BANGOR

Alas, My Aching Heart

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Alas, my aching heart! Lyrics: 1 Alas, my aching heart! Here the keen torment lies; It racks my waking hours with smart, And frights my slumbering eyes. 2 Guilt will be hid no more, My griefs take vent apace, The crimes that blot my conscience o’er Flush crimson in my face. 3 My sorrows like a flood Impatient of restraint Into Thy bosom, O my God, Pour out a long complaint. 4 This impious heart of mine Could once defy the Lord, Could rush with violence on to sin In presence of Thy sword. 5 As often have I stood A rebel to the skies, The calls, the tenders of a God, And mercy’s loudest cries. 6 He offers all His grace, And all His heaven to me; Offers! But ’tis to senseless brass That can nor feel nor see. 7 Jesus the Savior stands To court me from above, And looks and spreads His wounded hands, And shows the prints of love. 8 But I, a stupid fool, How long have I withstood The blessings purchased with His soul, And paid for all in blood? 9 The heav’nly Dove came down And tendered me His wings, To mount me upward to a crown And bright immortal things. 10 Lord, I’m ashamed to say That I refused Thy Dove, And sent Thy Spirit grieved away To His own realms of love. 11 Nor all Thine heav’nly charms, Nor Thy revenging hand Could force me to lay down my arms, And bow to Thy command. 12 Lord, ’tis against Thy face My sins like arrows rise, And yet, and yet, O matchless grace Thy thunder silent lies. 13 O shall I never feel The meltings of Thy love? Am I of such hell-hardened steel That mercy cannot move? 14 Now for one powerful glance Dear Savior, from Thy face! This rebel heart no more withstands, But sinks beneath Thy grace. 15 O’ercome by dying love I fall, And at Thy cross I lie; I throw my flesh, my soul, my all, And weep, and love, and die. 16 Rise, says the Prince of mercy, rise; With joy and pity in His eyes: “Rise and behold My wounded veins; Here flows the blood to wash thy stains. 17 See, My great Father’s reconciled: He said, and lo, the Father smiled; The joyful cherubs clapped their wings, And sounded grace on all their strings. Used With Tune: BANGOR Text Sources: Horae Lyricae, 1706-09, Book 1

Lord, when we bend before thy throne

Author: Rev. J. D. Carlyle Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 327 hymnals Topics: Lent; Prayer Used With Tune: BANGOR

Deepen the wound Thy hands have made

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 38 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Christian Holiness Used With Tune: BANGOR

BANGOR

Appears in 368 hymnals First Line: That awful day will surely come Used With Tune: BANGOR

Long Has Divine Compassion Strove

Author: Anne Steele Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Long has divine compassion strove With this rebellious land; O justice, long has pleading love Withheld thy dreadful hand. 2 At lengths, ye people, lift your eyes, Your crimes no more pursue; Behold the gathering tempest rise, And tremble at the view! 3 See, fraught with vengeance, how it spreads! To mercy instant fly; E’er yet it burst upon your heads, Repent, repent—or die. 4 Late raging storm, ’twas mercy stayed, Her voice destruction heard, Th’impetuous winds her voice obeyed, And awful justice spared. 5 Shall every warning be in vain Your ruin to prevent? Indulgent mercy calls again, Return, repent! repent! 6 The voice, ye people, hear with awe, O hear, and turn to God; Lest mercy, long abused, withdraw, And leave you to the rod. 7 Almighty God, Thy powerful grace Can change us, and forgive; Can save a guilty rebel race, And say, Repent, and live. 8 O let Thy powerful grace appear, And justice sheath her sword; Then shall a rescued nation fear And love and praise the Lord. Used With Tune: BANGOR Text Sources: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760, alt.

O Thou, in all thy might so far

Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer Appears in 88 hymnals Used With Tune: BANGOR

Lord, teach us how to pray aright

Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 224 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lord, teach us how to pray aright with reverence and with fear: though dust and ashes in Your sight, we may, we must draw near. 2 We perish if we cease from prayer: O grant us power to pray; and when to meet You we prepare, Lord, meet us by the way. 3 God of all grace, we bring to You a broken contrite heart; give what Your eye delights to view — truth in the inward part; 4 Faith in the only sacrifice that can for sin atone; to place our hopes, to fix our eyes, on Christ, and Christ alone. 5 Patience to watch and weep and wait, whatever You may send; courage that will not hesitate to trust You to the end. 6 Give these, and then Your will be done; thus, strengthened with all might, we, through Your Spirit and Your Son, shall pray, and pray aright. Topics: The Temple Prayer Used With Tune: BANGOR

Hark! from the Tombs a Doleful Sound

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 343 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound; My ears, attend the cry; “Ye living men, come view the ground Where you must shortly lie. 2. Princes, this clay must be your bed, In spite of all your towers; The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours! 3. Great God! is this our certain doom? And are we still secure? Still walking downward to our tomb, And yet prepare no more? 4. Grant us the powers of quickening grace, To fit our souls to fly, Then, when we drop this dying flesh, We’ll rise above the sky. Used With Tune: BANGOR Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-9, Book II, number 63