My heart with loads of guilt oppress'd, 2 What crowds of evil thoughts, 3 Almighty King of saints, 4 This done, my cheerful voice Carthage. Darwent. 1 OH, that my load of sin were gone! 2 Rest for my soul I long to find- I cannot rest till pure within- HYMN 347. S. M. Guilford. Little Marlboro'. Newton. 1 O LORD, how vile am I, How can I dare to venture nigh 2 Is this polluted heart 3 If I attempt to pray, 4 If in thy word I look, Such darkness fills my mind, 5 Thy gospel oft I hear, But hear it still in vain: Without desire, or love, or fear, Harden'd I still remain. 6 And must I then indeed Sink in despair and die? Fain would I hope that thou didst bleed For such a wretch as I. 1 BEHOLD the tears that Mary shed— Her doubts and darkness all are fled 2 When o'er the Saviour's feet in pray'r And dried them with her flowing hair, 3 Say, burden'd soul, whose num'rous sins In dark array are set; What canst thou do to mitigate The terrors of thy debt? 4 Canst thou not love the friend, who died That burden to assume? Who shrunk not from the crown of thorns, The scourge the cross-the tomb? 5 If heavy is thy weight of guilt, Thy love must greater be Then He, whose blood for man was spilt, Will shed his peace on thee. HYMN 349. C. M. St. Ann's. Tempest. Haweis. God our hiding-place. Ps. xxxii. 7. 1 WHEN low'ring clouds deform the sky, And darkness thickens round, Sudden the forked lightnings fly, Loud thunders rock the ground: 2 The howling blasts, impetuous, sweep The desolated plain; The frighted beasts to covert creep; And storms of wrath divine I dread, 4 See, on the whirlwind's rapid wing, 5 "Haste, sinner! haste," the Saviour cried, "Behold my wounded form! The cleft of my deep-pierced side Shall hide thee from the storm." Magdalen. Pastoral Duet, 1 COME, ye weary sinners, come, 2 Jesus,-full of truth and love, Faithful let thy mercies prove, 3 Burden'd with a world of grief, HYMN 351. 7s. Middleton. Hotham. Sin bewailed. Newton. 1 COME, my soul, thy suit prepare, 2 With my burden I begin; Take possession of my breast; |