LYRICS
| Meter: | 6 4 6 4 6 6 6 4
| | Writer(s): | Horatius Bonar
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1866
| | Bible Refs: | 1 Jn 1:9
| Baptist Hymnal
| 1956
| 206
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1919
| 1919
| 114
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 93
| Hymnal Comp to Book of Common Prayer
| 1890
| 157
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 354
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 249
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 411
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| 1. No, not despairingly
come I to Thee;
No, not distrustingly
bend I the knee:
Sin hath gone over me,
yet is this still my plea,
Jesus hath died.
2. Ah! mine iniquity
crimson hath been,
Infinite, infinite—
sin upon sin:
Sin of not loving Thee,
sin of not trusting Thee—
Infinite sin.
3. Lord, I confess to Thee
sadly my sin;
All I am tell with Thee,
all I have been:
Purge Thou my sin away,
wash Thou my soul this day;
Lord, make me clean.
4. Faithful and just art Thou,
forgiving all;
Loving and kind art Thou
when poor ones call:
Lord, let the cleansing blood,
blood of the Lamb of God,
Pass o’er my soul.
5. Then all is peace and light
this soul within;
Thus shall I walk with Thee,
the loved Unseen;
Leaning on Thee, my God,
guided along the road,
Nothing between.
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