How Helpless Guilty Nature Lies Lyrics Anne Steele, 1760
4 verses, meter C.M., public domain, free to print and project.
The words
Verse 1. How helpless guilty nature lies,
Unconscious of its load!
The heart, unchanged, can never rise
To happiness and God.
Verse 2. Can aught, beneath a power divine,
The stubborn will subdue?
’Tis thine, almighty Spirit! thine,
To form the heart anew.
Verse 3. ’Tis thine, the passions to recall,
And upward bid them rise;
To make the scales of error fall,
From reason’s darkened eyes.
Verse 4. Oh! change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine;
Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty Lord! be thine.
Words copied from The Otterbein Hymnal (1892). They were published in 1760, so they are in the public domain in the United States, and your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.
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