1 How helpless guilty nature lies,
Unconscious of its load!
The heart unchanged can never rise
To happiness and God.
2 Can aught beneath a power divine,
The stubborn will subdue?
’Tis Thine, Almighty Saviour Thine,
To form the heart anew.
3 ’Tis Thine the passions to recall,
And upwards bid them rise;
To make the scales of error fall
From reason’s darkened eyes;
4 To chase the shades of death away,
And bid the sinner live,
A beam of heaven, a vital ray,
’Tis Thine alone to give.
5 Oh, change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine!
Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty, Lord, be Thine.
Amen.
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First Line: | How helpless guilty nature lies |
Title: | How Helpless Guilty Nature Lies |
Author: | Anne Steele, 1716-1778 (1769) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1901 |
Topic: | Repentance |
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Name: | NÄR NÖD OCH KRANKHET TYNGA PA |
Meter: | C. M. |
Source: | Swedish folk melody |