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How Vain, Great God

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: How vain, great God, and worse than vain Lyrics: 1 How vain, great God, and worse than vain, How sinful our pretended pain In this our evil day! Unless we to our Smiter turn, The cause of all our evils mourn, And cast our sins away. 2 ’Gainst vice we partially declaim, With undiscerning censure blame Our nation’s wickedness: But O! The sin that loudest cries For all the vengeance of the skies, We never once confess. 3 O might we from our hearts repent Of scorning Him Thy pity sent To heal our sin and grief! Assist us through Thy Spirit’s power, To own, and feelingly deplore Our damning unbelief. 4 Convince the wretches who deny Their Lord, that stooped for them to die, Who triumph in His pain, Who trample on His precious blood, And hate, and scoff the dying God, And crucify again. 5 Confound the misbelieving pride Of those that impiously divide Thy dearest Son and Thee, Who will not Him Thine equal own, But madly threaten to dethrone The filial Deity. 6 And O! Almighty Son of God, Into the blind self righteous crowd Thy sharpest arrows dart; The men who infidels condemn, Nor ever knew themselves the same, Mere infidels in heart. 7 A formal self deceiving race, Who mock the counsel of Thy grace, The sense of sins forgiven, The power of godliness explode, The witness, and the peace of God, And faith that leads to Heaven. 8 Forgive us, Lord, for such we were, And all our guilty brethren spare, Our unbelief reprove, Give us that root of sins to own, And make our wounded spirits groan Beneath their want of love. 9 Let all the faithless nation cry, Redeem us, Savior, or we die, A second death to feel: O Jesus, Thine only name and blood Can save us from the wrath of God, Can ransom us from hell. 10 On Thee our dying souls we cast, Our dying souls receive at last, And in Thy arms embrace, To triumph in Thy pardoning love, And sing with all the saved above Thine everlasting praise. Used With Tune: HABAKKUK Text Sources: Hymns Occasioned by the Earthquake, March 8, 1750 Part 2 (London: Strahan, 1750)

Thus Hath The Son Of Jesse Said

Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Thus hath the Son of Jesse said, When Israel’s God had raised his head To high imperial sway: Struck with his last poetic fire, Then Zion’s psalmist tuned his lyre To this harmonious lay. 2 Thus dictates Israel’s sacred Rock: Thus hath the God of Jacob spoke By my responsive tongue: Behold the just one over men Commencing his religious reign! Great subject of my song. 3 So gently shines with genial ray Th’unclouded lamp of rising day, And cheers the tender flowers, When midnight’s soft diffusive rain Hath blessed the gardens and the plain With kind refreshing showers. 4 Shall not my house this honor boast? My soul th’eternal covenant trust, Well ordered still and sure? There all my hopes and wishes meet; In death I call its blessings sweet, And feel its bond secure. 5 The sons of Belial shall not spring, Who spurn at Heav’n’s appointed king, And scorn his high command: Tho’ wide the briars infest the ground, And all the sharpest thorns around Defy a tender hand. 6 A dreadful warrior shall appear With iron arms, and massy spear, And tear them from their place: Touched with the lightning of his ire, At once they kindle into fire, And vanish in the blaze. Used With Tune: JOSEPHINE Text Sources: Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton, 1755)

Jesus Of Nazareth, Look Down

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Jesus of Nazareth, look down On those Thou call’st Thy flesh and bone, Thy suffering members here; Arise, in their defense arise, And now, in all the heathens’ eyes, Be their protector near. [originally, "On Israel’s part appear."] 2 Thy weakest confessors defend, And let them on Thyself depend, For help in their distress: Support, confirm the feeble mind, And keep them all on Thee reclined, And keep in perfect peace. 3 Let none forsake the fold and fly, Let none thro’ fear their Lord deny, But stand the fiery hour; The greatness of Thy mercy prove, The truth of Thy redeeming love, And all sufficient power. 4 Let none unwarily give place To Satan, with his angel face, And yield their souls to sell; To sell their conscience, and their God, Or weary leave the narrow road, And go for ease—to hell. 5 Still may they on the world look down, Superior to its smile and frown, Its threats and promises; The tempter tread beneath their feet, And Thee, where Satan keeps his seat, In life, and death confess. 6 O, Savior, now their fears remove, The sense of Thy redeeming love Abundantly impart, To all whose sacred love we feel; The prayer of faith this moment seal On every panting heart. Used With Tune: HABAKKUK Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, Vol. 2, 1749

Happy the Men Who Jesus Knows

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Happy the men who Jesus knows, Who humbly walk with God below, His secret voice attend. From all tumultuous passion free, Their Guide invisible they see, And commune with their Friend. 2 O that I thus on Christ reclined, His quiet, meek, and even mind Might with Himself possess: I want the faith which works by hope, Which calmly to its Lord looks up, And waits for perfect peace. 3 Jesus, on me the power bestow To work, or rest, stand still, or go, As Thy design I feel: Redeemed from nature's hurrying strife, I would not take one step in life Without a beck from Thee. 4 No longer rash to act, or speak, To think or judge, I only seek To know Thine utmost will. I set my God a time no more, The Kingdom when Thou wilt restore, And all Thy love reveal. Topics: Worship of the Son Used With Tune: VENETIA

O Love Divine, How Sweet Thou Art

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 379 hymnals First Line: O Love Divine, how sweet Thou art! Topics: The Christian Life; The Christian Gospel Provisions Scripture: Ephesians 3:19

Quereis o que não pode ser?

Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788); Joan Sutton (1930-2016) Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Quereis o que não pode ser Used With Tune: POSSÍVEL

Be It According to Thy Word

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 10 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Be it according to Thy word, Merciful unto all, O Lord. Be merciful to me: Avert the wrath I deprecate, Nor crush me with Thy judgments weight, Who would return to Thee, Who would return to Thee. 2 Thy wrath shall not forever last, If pained at my pollutions past, I groan to be made clean: And lo, I now with grief confess My inward parts are wickedness. And all my life is sin, And all my life is sin. 3 I have mine idols multiplied, Before the shrine of self and pride With vile devotion fell; Followed where'er the tempter led, And by each beastly, devilish deed Debased my soul to hell, Debased my soul to hell. 4 My heart was hardened from Thy fear, Thy warning voice I would not hear. But cast Thy words behind: Yet for my Saviour's sake forgive; And in Thy mercy's arms receive Our whole apostate kind, Our whole apostate kind. AMEN. Topics: The Call to Salvation Used With Tune: ARIEL