Christ My Song - 974

Speak, my Saviour, speak to me - Go and Sin no More
(Charlotte Elliott/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

Go and Sin no More.

John 8,11.

1. Speak, my Saviour, speak to me,
  with divine effectual power –
weeping, I look up to thee –
  bid  m e  "go and sin no more." PDF - Midi

2. Thou art full of pardoning love,
  thou canst grant what I implore;
now thy pitying mercy prove,
  bid me "go and sin no more."

3. Thou upbraidest not thy child;
  deeply I the past deplore,
now with gracious accents mild,
  bid me "go and sin no more."

4. Nothing can I see but sin,
  it has tainted my heart's core;
there it spreads, without, within,
  can " I  go and sin no more?"

5. 'Tis for man too hard a task,
  but thou  c a n s t  my soul restore;
Saviour! this alone I ask –
  bid me "go and sin no more."

6. Self-condemned – without a plea,
  guilty – lost – like her of yore,
mine may her acquittal be!
  Bid me "go and sin no more."

7. Oh, how blessed will be that day
  when, while I thy love adore,
I shall never need to say,
  bid me "go and sin no more."

Charlotte Elliott, Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott, 157-158.

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