Christ My Song - 1758
My sins have taken such an hold on me - Repentance
(John S. B. Monsell/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
Repentance.
"The kingdom of God is at hand:
repent ye, and believe the Gospel." (Mark 1,15)
1. My sins have taken such an hold on me,
I am not able to look up to thee;
Lord, I repent! accept my tears and grief:
but thou hast taken all my sins away,
and I in thee dare now look up and pray;
Lord, I believe! help thou mine unbelief! PDF - Midi
2. Of nights unhallowed, and of sinful days,
of careless thoughts, and words, and works, and ways,
Lord, I repent! accept my tears and grief:
and in the life which doth within me live,
and the forgiveness which can all forgive,
Lord, I believe! help thou mine unbelief!
3. Of selfishness, which makes the soul unjust,
envy and strife and every sinful lust,
Lord, I repent! accept my tears and grief:
and in the Blood which doth my pardon plead,
the Truth and Love which for me intercede,
Lord, I believe! help thou mine unbelief!
4. Of sins that as a cloud have hid thy face,
of wounds fresh opened, and thy grievèd grace,
Lord, I repent! accept my tears and grief:
in Love, which puts the envious veil aside,
rending that veil of flesh which for me died,
Lord, I believe! help thou mine unbelief!
5. Sin is my sorrow! passion is my pain!
to thee their vileness – and in me their stain;
Lord, I repent! accept my tears and grief:
Christ is my joy! and out of my distress
he doth deliver with His Righteousness;
Lord, I believe! help thou mine unbelief!
John S. B. Monsell, Hymns of Love and Praise, 1877, 34-35.
Hymn title from the index, page 173.