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Second Sunday in Lent.

Almighty God, Thy aid we seek: Thou see’st how helpless and how weak we of ourselves are found; poor, and unclad; blind, deaf, yea, dead, in sins whose dye is crimson red, by guilt encompassed round. The feeble sheep on mountain high will rest secure ‘til foes are nigh, then flee in abject fear; but we more helpless yet are found; the chains of sin our limbs surround; we heed not danger near. Thy loving pity we await: compassionate our wretched state, O bid us live and rise! Our iron bonds, O God, unbind! Open the avenues of mind! Enlighten Thou our eyes! Our feeble bodies still defend; into our souls Thy spirit send, to purify from sin: preserve us from the fiery darts, the tempter’s influence oft imparts by evil thoughts within. O grant us grace to watch and wait, upon Thy love to meditate, so evil thoughts control, until an entrance Thou afford, to Thy redeemed, through Christ our Lord, and heaven’s wide gates unroll.

1 Almighty God, Thy aid we seek:
Thou see’st how helpless and how weak
we of ourselves are found;
poor, and unclad; blind, deaf, yea, dead,
in sins whose dye is crimson red,
by guilt encompassed round.
2 The feeble sheep on mountain high
will rest secure ‘til foes are nigh,
then flee in abject fear;
but we more helpless yet are found;
the chains of sin our limbs surround;
we heed not danger near.
3 Thy loving pity we await:
compassionate our wretched state,
O bid us live and rise!
Our iron bonds, O God, unbind!
Open the avenues of mind!
Enlighten Thou our eyes!
4 Our feeble bodies still defend;
into our souls Thy spirit send,
to purify from sin:
preserve us from the fiery darts,
the tempter’s influence oft imparts
by evil thoughts within.
5 O grant us grace to watch and wait,
upon Thy love to meditate,
so evil thoughts control,
until an entrance Thou afford,
to Thy redeemed, through Christ our Lord,
and heaven’s wide gates unroll.

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Text attr. Eliza Humphreys
Tune Kommt her zu mir
German melody, Nürnberg, 1534

Second Sunday in Lent.

O Lord, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights; give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness, and true holiness, to thy honor and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.