Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Come humble sinner in whose breast (FL)

Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns

Date: 1818

Compiler: Rice Haggard

Publisher/Printer: John Norvell

First Line: Come humble sinner in whose breast

Topic: Repenting Sinner

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

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 35

Page Number: 039, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Come, humble sinner, in whose breast

A thousand thoughts revolve;

Come, with your guilt and fear opprest

And make this last resolve.



I'll go to Jesus, tho' my sin

Has like a mountain 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 sovereign 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 prayer,

But if I parish, I will pray,

And perish only there.



I can but perish if I go,

I am resolved to try:

For if I stay away, I know

I must forever die.