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Approach, My Soul, the Mercy Seat

Author: John Newton Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 618 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Approach, my soul, the mercy seat, Where Jesus answers prayer; There humbly fall before His feet, For none can perish there. 2. Thy promise is my only plea, With this I venture nigh; Thou callest burdened souls to Thee, And such, O Lord, am I. 3. Bowed down beneath a load of sin, By Satan sorely pressed, By war without and fears within, I come to Thee for rest. 4. Be Thou my Shield and hiding Place, That, sheltered by Thy side, I may my fierce accuser face, And tell him Thou hast died! 5. O wondrous love! to bleed and die, To bear the cross and shame, That guilty sinners, such as I, Might plead Thy gracious name. 6. Poor tempest-tossèd soul, be still; My promised grace receive; ’Tis Jesus speaks—I must, I will, I can, I do believe. Used With Tune: BALLERMA Text Sources: Olney Hymns (London: W. Oliver, 1779), number 12

Oh, happy is the man who hears

Appears in 302 hymnals Used With Tune: BALERMA

O God of Bethel, by whose hand

Author: Rev. Philip Doddridge; Rev. John Logan Appears in 390 hymnals Used With Tune: BALERMA Text Sources: v. 5 added, Scottish Trs. and Paraphs. , 1781

The load of Sin

Appears in 233 hymnals First Line: How helpless guilty nature lies Lyrics: 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 Spirit! thine, To form the heart anew. 3 ’Tis thine, the passions to recall, And upward 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. Used With Tune: BALERMA