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What tongue can fully tell

Author: Hart Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #313 (1844) Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind Lyrics: 1 What tongue can fully tell That Christian’s grievous load, Who would do all things well, And walk the ways of God, But feels within foul envy lurk, And lust, and work, engendering sin? 2 [Poor, wretched, worthless worm! In what sad plight I stand! When good I would perform, Then evil is at hand. My leprous soul is all unclean, My heart obscene, my nature foul.] 3 To trust to Christ alone, By thousand dangers scared, And righteousness have none, Is something very hard. Whate’er men say, the needy know It must be so, it is the way. 4 Thou all-sufficient Lamb, God blest for evermore, We glory in thy name, For thine is all the power. Stretch forth thy hand, and hold us fast, Our First and Last, in thee we stand. Scripture: James 4:5 Languages: English

"But thou shalt know hereafter"

Author: Hart Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #315 (1844) Meter: 7.6 Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind First Line: Righteous are the works of God Lyrics: 1 Righteous are the works of God; All his ways are holy; Just his judgments, fit his rod To correct our folly. 2 All his dealings wise and good, Uniform, though various; Though they seem, by reason viewed, Cross, or quite contrarious. 3 These are truths, and happy he Who can well receive them; Brethren, though we cannot see, Still we should believe them. 4 Why through darksome paths we go, We may know no reason; Yet we shall hereafter know, Each in his due season. 5 Could we see how all is right, Where were room for credence? But by faith, and not by sight, Christians yield obedience. 6 Let all fruitless searches go, Which perplex and tease us; We determine nought to know, But a bleeding Jesus. Languages: English

Glorying in Infirmities

Author: W. Gadsby Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #613 (1844) Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind First Line: A helpless worm am I Lyrics: 1 A helpless worm am I, Yet often start aside; Infirmities annoy, And enemies deride; Ten thousand evils me assault, And wound my soul, and make me halt. 2 I want to be set free From every hateful foe, From each infirmity, And only pleasure know; But ’tis my heavenly Father’s will, That I infirmities should feel. 3 [Infirmities, as means, Have taught my soul to see, That nought, how fair it seems, But Christ will do for me; I must have Christ as All in all, Or sink in ruin, guilt, and thrall.] 4 I’ll gladly glory, then, In my infirmity, That Jesus’ power and name, May ever rest on me; I’ll bless his name; he’ll bring me through, And he’ll have all the glory too. Languages: English

Flesh and Spirit

Author: W. Gadsby Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #617 (1844) Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind First Line: The new man and the old Lyrics: 1 The new man and the old By no means can agree; The one in sin is bold, From sin the other’s free. The principles of grace and sin A constant warfare must maintain. 2 [One loves to watch and pray, And walk in Jesus’ path; The other hates the way, And loves the road to death; Christ is the new man’s boast and joy; Flesh does the old man satisfy.] 3 Christ, and him crucified, The new man loves to view; Lust, vanity and pride, The old man will pursue; One pants with God to live and reign; The other hates his sovereign name. 4 The principle of grace On Jesus puts the crown; But sin, with shameless face, Would pull his glory down. Jesus shall reign, the new man cries; His right to reign the flesh denies. 5 Well, let old nature toil; The warfare can’t be long; And Christians, with a smile, Shall sing the conqueror’s song; Through Christ we shall victorious prove, And live and reign with him above. Languages: English

Sin has a thousand pleasing charms

Author: W. Gadsby Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #620 (1844) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind Lyrics: 1 Sin has a thousand pleasing charms, Which flatter to preserve from harms; She richly gilds her pleasing baits, And calls her trash delicious sweets. 2 Young men and maidens, rich and poor, Are pleased with her deceptive ore; There’s scarce an eye that views the light, But she can charm by day or night. 3 Nor are the vessels of the Lord Free from the chirpings of this bird, Her craft and spleen she’ll make them feel, And make them like a drunkard reel. 4 Her nature’s serpentine indeed; Her strength could make a Samson yield; Nor David could against her stand, When David’s God withheld his hand. 5 Good God! what can a mortal do, With such a cursèd, artful foe? Let grace divine my soul defend, Nor let me to this monster bend. 6 [Work in me, Lord, to will and do, My way to Zion to pursue; And while I tread the thorny road, Teach me to lean upon my God.] Scripture: Jeremiah 17:9 Languages: English

Legal Conflict

Author: Hammond Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #279 (1844) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind First Line: How shall I pour out my complaint Lyrics: 1 How shall I pour out my complaint, Or tell the Lord my sore distress? Yet he espies my every want, My weakness, sin, and foolishness. 2 Stupid, secure, and hard, and blind, Withered and dead, and rooted up; To endless death I seem consigned; So destitute of cheering hope. 3 Uneasy when I feel my load; Uneasy when I feel it not; Dissatisfied for want of God, Though oft of him I’ve not a thought. 4 I cannot frame a good desire, If all the world to me was given; I cannot to a wish aspire, If one good wish would purchase heaven. 5 Sometimes I follow after God; Sometimes I carelessly retreat; For mercy now I cry aloud, And now in stubborn silence sit. 6 O Prince of life, with power descend; Thy blood apply, my conscience clear; Then shall this legal conflict end, And perfect love cast out sad fear. Languages: English

"Pride"

Author: Hart Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #287 (1844) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind First Line: Innumerable foes Lyrics: 1 Innumerable foes, Attack the child of God; He feels within the weight of sin, A grievous, galling load. 2 [Temptations, too, without, Of various kinds, assault; Sly snares beset his travelling feet, And make him often halt. 3 From sinner and from saint He meets with many a blow; His own bad heart creates him smart, Which only God can know.] 4 But though the host of hell Be neither weak nor small, One mighty foe deals wondrous woe, And hurts beyond them all. 5 ’Tis pride, accursèd pride, The spirit by God abhorred; Do what we will, it haunts us still, And keeps us from the Lord. 6 [It blows its poisonous breath, And bloats the soul with air; The heart uplifts with God’s own gifts, And makes e’en grace a snare.] 7 [Awake, nay, while we sleep, In all we think or speak, It puffs us glad, torments us sad; Its hold we cannot break. 8 In other ills we find The hand of heaven not slack; Pride only knows to interpose, And keep our comforts back.] 9 [’Tis hurtful when perceived; When not perceived, ’tis worse; Unseen or seen, it dwells within, And works by fraud or force.] 10 [Against its influence pray, It mingles with the prayer; Against it preach, it prompts the speech; Be silent, still ’tis there.] 11 [In every outward act, In every thought within, The heart it draws to seek applause, And mixes all with sin.] 12 Thou meek and lowly Lamb, This haughty tyrant kill, That wounded thee, though thou wast free, And grieves thy Spirit still. 13 Our condescending God, (To whom else shall we go?) Remove our pride, whate’er betide, And lay and keep us low. 14 [Thy garden is the place Where pride cannot intrude; For should it dare to enter there, ’Twould soon be drowned in blood.] Scripture: Proverbs 29:23 Languages: English

The Prisoner

Author: Newton Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #288 (1844) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind First Line: When the poor prisoner, through a grate Lyrics: 1 When the poor prisoner, through a grate, Sees others walk at large, How does he mourn his lonely state, And long for a discharge! 2 Thus I, confined in unbelief, My loss of freedom mourn; And spend my hours in fruitless grief, Until my Lord return. 3 The beam of day which pierces through The gloom in which I dwell, Only discloses to my view The horrors of my cell. 4 [Ah! how my pensive spirit faints, To think of former days, When I could triumph with the saints, And join their songs of praise!] 5 Dear Saviour, for thy mercy’s sake, My strong, my only plea, These gates and bars in pieces break, And set the prisoner free. Languages: English

Temptation

Author: Cowper Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #290 (1844) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind First Line: Dangers of every shape and name Lyrics: 1 Dangers of every shape and name Attend the followers of the Lamb, Who leave the world’s deceitful shore, And leave it to return no more. 2 O Lord, the pilot’s part perform, And guide and guard me through the storm; Defend me from each threatening ill; Control the waves; say, “Peace! be still!” 3 Amidst the roaring of the sea, My soul still hangs her hopes on thee; Thy constant love, thy faithful care, Is all that saves me from despair. Languages: English

Encompass'd with clouds of distress

Author: Toplady Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #293 (1844) Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind Lyrics: 1 Encompassed with clouds of distress, And tempted all hope to resign, I pant for the light of thy face, That I in thy beauty may shine. Disheartened with waiting so long, I sink at thy feet with my load; All plaintive I pour out my song, And stretch forth my hands unto God. 2 [Shine, Lord, and my terror shall cease; The blood of atonement apply; And lead me to Jesus for peace, The Rock that is higher than I. Speak, Saviour, for sweet is thy voice; Thy presence is fair to behold; I thirst for thy Spirit, with cries And groanings that cannot be told.] 3 If sometimes I strive, as I mourn, My hold of thy promise to keep, The billows more fiercely return, And plunge me again in the deep. While harassed and cast from thy sight, The tempter suggests with a roar, “The Lord has forsaken thee quite; Thy God will be gracious no more.” 4 Yet, Lord, if thy love has designed No covenant blessing for me, Ah! tell me, how is it I find Some sweetness in waiting for thee? Almighty to rescue thou art, Thy grace is immortal and free; Lord, succour and comfort my heart, And make me live wholly to thee. Languages: English