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Temptation

Author: Cowper Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 4 hymnals 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.

O the pangs by Christians felt

Author: Hart Meter: 7.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind Lyrics: 1 O the pangs by Christians felt, When their eyes are open; When they see the gulfs of guilt They must wade and grope in; When the hell appears within, Causing bitter anguish, And the loathsome stench of sin Makes the spirit languish. 2 Now the heart disclosed, betrays All its hid disorders, Enmity to God’s right ways, Blasphemies and murders; Malice, envy, lust, and pride, Thoughts obscene and filthy; Sores corrupt and putrefied, No part sound or healthy. 3 [All things to promote our fall Show a mighty fitness; Satan will accuse withal, And the conscience witness; Foes within, and foes without, Wrath, and law, and terrors, Rash presumption, timid doubt, Coldness, deadness, errors.] 4 Brethren, in a state so sad, When temptations seize us, When our hearts we feel thus bad, Let us look to Jesus. He that hung upon the cross, For his people bleeding, Now in heaven sits, for us Always interceding. 5 Vengeance, when the Saviour died, Quitted the believer; Justice cried, “I’m satisfied, Now, henceforth, for ever.” “It is finished,” said the Lord, In his dying minute; Holy Ghost, repeat the word, Full salvation’s in it. 6 [Leprous soul, press through the crowd In thy foul condition; Struggle hard, and call aloud On the great Physician. Wait till thy disease he cleanse, Begging, trusting, cleaving; When, and where, and by what means, To his wisdom leaving.]

The Narrow Way

Author: Hart Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind First Line: Wide is the gate of death Lyrics: 1 Wide is the gate of death; The way is large and broad; And many enter in thereat, And walk that beaten road. 2 Because the gate of life Is narrow, low, and small; The path so pressed, so close, so strait, There seems no path at all. 3 [This way, that’s found by few, Ten thousand snares beset, To turn the seeker’s steps aside, And trap the traveller’s feet.] 4 [Before we’ve journeyed far, Two dangerous gulfs are fixed, Dead sloth and pharisaic pride, Scarce a hair’s breadth betwixt.] 5 [False lights delude the eyes, And lead the steps astray; That traveller treads the surest here That seldom sees his way.] 6 [Guides cry, “Lo here!” “Lo there!” “On this, on that side keep;” Some overdrive, some frighten back, And others lull to sleep.] 7 [On the left hand and right, Close, cragged rocks are seen, Distrust and self-wrought confidence; ’Tis hard to squeeze between.] 8 [Sometimes we seem to gain Great lengths of ground by day; But find, alas! when night comes on, We quite mistook the way.] 9 [Sometimes we have no strength; Sometimes we want the will; And sometimes, lest we might go wrong, We choose to stand quite still.] 10 [Again, through heedless haste, We catch some dangerous fall; Then, fearing we may move too fast, We hardly move at all.] 11 [Deep quagmires choke the way; Corruptions foul and thick; Whose stench infects the air, and makes The strongest traveller sick.] 12 [Through these we long must wade, And oft stick fast in mire; Now heat consumes, now frost benumbs, As dangerous as the fire.] 13 [Spectres, of various forms, Allure, enchant, affright; Presumption tempts us every day; Despair assaults by night.] 14 [Companions if we find, Alas! how soon they’re gone! For ’tis decreed that most must pass The darkest paths alone.] 15 Distressed on every side With evils, felt or feared; We pray, we cry, but cannot find That prayers or cries are heard. 16 Thickets of briers and thorns Our feeble feet enclose; And every step we take betrays New dangers and new foes. 17 When all these foes are quelled, And every danger past, That ghastly phantom, Death, remains To combat with at last.

Let me, thou sovereign Lord of all

Author: Medley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind Lyrics: 1 Let me, thou sovereign Lord of all, Low at thy footstool humbly fall; And while I feel affliction’s rod, Be still and know that thou art God. 2 Let me not murmur nor repine, Under these trying strokes of thine; But while I walk the mournful road Be still and know that thou art God. 3 When and wherever thou shalt smite; Teach me to own thy sovereign right; And underneath the heaviest load, Be still and know that thou art God. 4 Still let this truth support my mind, Thou canst not err nor be unkind; And thus approve thy chastening rod, And know thou art my Father, God! 5 When this afflicted soul shall rise To ceaseless joys above the skies, I shall, as ransomed by thy blood, For ever sing, “Thou art my God!” Scripture: Psalm 46:10

The Afflicted secure in Christ

Author: Adams Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind First Line: The Lord in Zion reigns Lyrics: 1 The Lord in Zion reigns, And will his people keep; ’Tis he the universe sustains, And well secures his sheep. 2 Though with afflictions sore He may them exercise; Yet still his hand they shall adore, And still his love shall prize. 3 Should poverty, and loss Of every kind of good, Conspire to make our weighty cross, Our helper still is God. 4 May we for ever trust And glory in his name; Jesus, the faithful, true, and just, For ever is the same!

Inward Conflict

Author: Newton Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Tribulation and Inconstancy of Mind First Line: I know the Lord is nigh Lyrics: 1 I know the Lord is nigh, And would but cannot pray, For Satan meets me when I try, And frights my soul away. 2 I would, but can’t repent, Though I endeavour oft; This stony heart can ne’er relent Till Jesus makes it soft. 3 I would, but cannot love, Though wooed by love divine; No arguments have power to move A soul so base as mine. 4 I would, but cannot rest In God’s most holy will; I know what he appoints is best, Yet murmur at it still. 5 O could I but believe, Then all would easy be; I would, but cannot; Lord, relieve; My help must come from thee. 6 [By nature prone to ill, Till thy appointed hour, I was as destitute of will As now I am of power.] 7 [Wilt thou not crown at length The work thou hast begun? And with the will afford me strength In all thy ways to run?]