THE

WESLEYAN SACRED HARP

A COLLECTION or

Choice Tunes and Hymns

FOR

PRAYER CLASS, AND CAMP MEETINGS, CHOIRS,
AND CONGREGATIONAL SINGING.

BY

REV. W. McDONALD,

OF THE MAINE CONFERENCE. AUTHOR OF THE WESLEYAN MINSTREL,

AND

S. HUBBARD, Esq.,

AUTHOR OF "SONGS OF CANAAN,” “MUSICAL GEMS," AND "TEMPERANCE MELODIST," ETC

They sang praises with gladness, and bowed their heads and worshipped.

2 CHRON. 29: 30.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY.
CLEVELAND, OHIO:

JEWETT, PROCTOR & WORTHINGTON.

NEW YORK:

SHELDON, LAMPORT & BLAKEMAN.

1856.

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PREFACE.

The object we have in view in the compilation of "THE WESLEYAN SACRED HARP," is, to supply a denominational want which is felt and often expressed, by our preachers and people. We wish to furnish, in a convenient form for use, a book containing a sufficient variety of tunes and hymns, for Prayer, Class and Camp Meetings, and Congregational Singing.

The TUNES are old, and new. We have been careful in our selections to have the soul of music in view. Many of the tunes - not altogether new have never appeared in a work of this kind before. great pleasure and profit.

They will be sung with

The HYMNS are chiefly from the Methodist Hymn Book. They are our choice hymns, to which we have always been obliged to flee, when pennyroyals have sickened, and been cast aside. We have introduced many hymns, not found in our Hymn Book, of a decidedly popular character, which will be sung while God continues to bless men.

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We commit the work to God, and His children, praying that all who sing from these pages on earth, may sing the New Song in Heaven forever.

W. Mc DONALD.
S. HUBBARD.

BOSTON, Nov. 28, 1834.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
W. MC DONALD, & S. HUBBARD,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts

A. B. KIDDER'S MUSIC TYPOGRAPHY.

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WINDHAM. L. M.

D. READ.

1. Show, pi-ty, Lord, O

Lord, for - give, Let

a re-pent - ing "reb-el live; Are not thy mer-cies

large and free? May

not a sinner trust 'in thee.

2 My crimes are great, but don't surpass
The power and glory of thy grace;
Great God, thy nature hath no bound,
So let thy pard'ning love be found.
3 0! wash my soul from every sin!
And make my guilty conscience clean!
Here on my heart the burden lies,
And past offences pain my eyes.
4 My lips with shame my sins confess,
Against thy law, against thy grace;
Lord, should thy judgments grow severe,
I am condemn'd, but thou art clear.

SECOND HYMN.

1 I thirst, thou wounded Lamb of God,
To wash me in thy cleansing blood;
To dwell within thy wounds; then pain
Is sweet, and life or death is gain.

2 Take my poor heart, and let it be
For ever clos'd to all but thee!
Seal thou my breast, and let me wear
That pledge of love for ever there.

3 How blest are they who still abide
Close shelter'd in thy bleeding side!
Who life and strength from thence derive,
And by thee move, and in thee live.

4 What are our works but sin and death,
Till thou thy quick'ning Spirit breathe?
Thou giv'st the power thy grace to move;
O wond'rous grace! O boundless love!

Deprecating the withdrawal of the Spirit.

1 Stay, thou insulted Spirit, stay,

Though I have done thee such despite; Nor cast the sinner quite away,

Nor take thine everlasting flight.

2 Though I have steel'd my stubborn heart,
And shaken off my guilty fears;
And vex'd, and urged thee to depart,
For many long rebellious years.

3 Though I have most unfaithful been,
Of all who e'er thy grace received;
Ten thousand times thy goodness seen!
Ten thousand times thy goodness grieved:

4 Yet, O! the chief of sinners spare,
In honor of my great High Priest;
Nor in thy righteous anger swear

To' exclude me from thy people's rest.