400. PART 6.
“Forgive us our Trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass
against us.”
1
We, O Lord! implore for giveness;
Merit we have none to plead;
All with thee is free bestowment;
All, with us, is want and need:
For our wanderings
May a Saviour intercede!
2
How shall we, Great Fount of goodness!
Half our debt, stupendous, pay?
Thou, when other refuge fail'd us,
Help on Christ didst freely lay;
Our forerunner,
Source, and pledge of endless day.
3
What obedience have we render'd
For this hope of joys divine?
What return, with heart devoted,
For a gift so vast as thine?
Grateful incense!
In life's dawn, or its decline?
4
Trespasses in youth committed,
Shrink from thine inspection pure;
Trespasses, in riper manhood,
Leave us shelterless and poor;
Christ incarnate,
Safety can alone insure.
5
We have borne another's trespass,
As to him we pardon show,
So for all our own transgressions,
Thy forgiveness, Lord! bestow!
More like Jesus,
Daily, hourly, may we grow.
6
God of love! extend thy mercy!
Saviour! whom we once denied,
In thy blood, that precious fountain!
May we all alone confide;
And, hereafter,
See thee by thy Father's side!
