By A Collection of Hymns

      6-8s.
      1 SAVIOUR, to thee we humbly cry!
      The brethren we have lost restore;
      Recall them by thy pitying eye,
      Retrieve them from the Tempter's power;
      By thy victorious blood cast down,
      Nor suffer him to take their crown.

      2 Beguiled alas! by Satan's art,
      We see them now far off removed,
      The burden of our bleeding heart,
      The souls whom once in thee we loved;
      Whom still we love with grief and pain,
      And weep for their return in vain.

      3 In vain, till thou the power bestow,
      The double power of quickening grace.
      And make the happy sinners know
      Their Tempter, with his angel-face,
      Who leads them captive at his will,
      Captive - but happy sinners still!

      4 O wouldst thou break the fatal snare
      Of carnal self-security;
      And let them feel the wrath they bear,
      And let them groan their want of thee,
      Robbed of their false, pernicious peace,
      Stripped of their fancied righteousness!

      5 The men of careless lives, who deem
      Thy righteousness accounted theirs,
      Awake out of the soothing dream,
      Alarm their souls with humble fears:
      Thou jealous God, stir up thy power,
      And let them sleep in sin no more!

      6 Long as the guilt of sin shall last,
      Them in its misery detain;
      Hold their licentious spirits fast,
      Bind them with their own nature's chain,
      Nor ever let the wanderers rest,
      Till lodged again in Jesu's breast.