O plead my cause, my Savior, plead

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O plead my cause, my Savior, plead

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Tune: ECKARDTSHEIM
Published in 4 hymnals

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1 O plead my cause, bless'd Savior, plead,
I trust it all to Thee.
You who did once for sinners bleed,
A sinner save in me.

2 Assure my weak desponding heart,
My threatening foes restrain;
O tell me Thou my helper are,
And all their rage in vain.

3 When round Thy cross they rushed to kill,
How was their fury foiled;
Their madness only wrought Thy will,
And on themselves recoiled.

4 The great salvation there achieved,
My hope shall ever be;
My soul has in her LORD believed,
And He will rescue me.

Source: Psalms of Grace #35a

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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