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Hymn: Rock of Ages cleft for me (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: Rock of Ages cleft for me

Topic: Christ/Rock

Writer: A Toplady

Composer: Thomas Hastings

Meter: 7s six lines

Tune: Rock of Ages

Hymn Number: 600

Page Number: 226, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

ROCK of Ages, cleft for me,

Let me hide myself in thee;

Let the water and the blood,

From thy riven side which flowed,

Be of sin the double cure-

Cleanse me from its guilt and power.



Not the labor of my hands

Can fulfill the law's demands;

Could my zeal no respite know,

Could my tears forever flow,

All for sin could not atone-

Thou must save, and thou alone.



Nothing in my hand I bring;

Simply to the cross I cling;

Naked, come to thee for dress;

Helpless, look to thee for grace;

Foul, I to the fountain fly;

Wash me, Saviour, or I die.



While I draw this fleeting breath,

When my heart-strings break in death,

When I soar to worlds unknown,

See thee on thy judgment throne,

Rock of Ages, cleft for me,

Let me hide myself in thee.