Original hymns Author:James Montgomery Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 5 For we, like children, born in sin, Know not till Thou hast taught, How to go out, or how come in, By word, or deed, or thought. 6 The young remember Th... more »ee in youth, Before the evil days; The old be guided by Thy truth, In Wisdom's pleasant ways. HYMN LXXI. Our Saviours Prayers. Preamble. High Priest for sinners, Jesus, Lord ! Whom as a Man of Griefs I see, Thy prayers on earth, while I record, If still in heaven Thou pray'st for me, My soul, for thy soul's travail claim, I seek salvation in Thy name. Part I. 1 Baptized as for the dead He rose, With prayer from Jordan's hallow'd flood, Ere long by persecuting foes, To be baptized in His own blood, The Father's voice proclaim'd the Son, The Spirit witness'd — These are One. 2 Early He rose, ere dawn of day, And to a desert place withdrew; There was He wont to watch and pray, Until His locks were wet with dew, And birds below, and beams above, Had warn'd Him thence to works of love. 3 At evening, when His toils were o'er, He sent the multitudes away, And on the mountain or the shore, All night remain'd to watch and pray, Till o'er His head the stars grew dim, When was the hour of rest for Him ? 4 In field or city, while He taught, Oft went His spirit forth in sighs; And when His mightiest deeds were wrought, To heaven He lifted up His eyes: He pray'd at Lazarus' grave, and shed Tears with the word that waked the dead. 5 When mothers brought their babes, He took The lambs into His arms, and pray'd; On Tabor, His transfigured look, While praying, turn'd the sun to shade, And forms, too pure for human sight, Grew visible amidst that light. 6 " O Father! save me from this hour, Yet for this hour to earth I came," , He pray'd in weakness; then with pow...« less