Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Come humble sinner in whose breast (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book

Date: 1829

Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams

Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell

First Line: Come humble sinner in whose breast

Topic: Penitential

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 34

Page Number: 040, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Come, humble sinner, in whose breast,

A thousand thoughts revolve;

Come, with your guilt and fear oppress'd,

And make this last resolve:



"I'll go to Jesus, tho' my sin,

Has like a montain rose;

I know his courts, I'll enter in,

Whatever may oppose.



Prostrate I'll lie before his throne,

And there my guilt confess;

I'll tell him I'm a wretch undone

Without his sov'reign grace.



I'll to the gracious King approach,

Whose sceptre pardon gives;

Surely he will command my touch,

And then the suppliant lives.



Surely he will admit my plea,

Surely will hear my pray'r;

But if I perish I will pray,

And perish only there.



I can but perish if I go,

I am resolv'd to try:

For if I stay away, I know

I must forever die.