 | Alfred Lennox (fict.name.) - 1851 - 214 pages
...wisdom and righteousness, sanctification and redemption, and knowing all this, Agnes, I can say,— " Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to thy cross I...thee for dress, Helpless, look to thee for grace, Vile, I to the fountain fly, Wash me, Saviour, or I die !" "But, Agnes, I thought that you could see... | |
 | Christian poets - Christian poetry, English - 1851 - 470 pages
...know, Could my tears for ever flow, All for sin could not atone ; Thou must save, and Thou alone ! Nothing in my hand I bring ; Simply to Thy cross I...Thee for dress ; Helpless, look to Thee for grace ; Vile, I to the fountain fly ; Wash me, Saviour, or I die. While I draw this fleeting breath, When... | |
 | Primitive Baptists - 1851 - 526 pages
...unbelief. That righteousness is beyond all price, and cannot be bestowed, but as a free donation. *' Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to thy cross I...to thee for dress, Helpless, look to thee for grace !" Dwell on these lines, and throw your 'hole soul into them by fervent prayer. The hymn may be known... | |
 | 1851 - 350 pages
...several appropriate verses of hymns, as, — " N. , ili ni; in my haud I hring, Simply to Thy cross l cling; Naked, come to Thee for dress, Helpless, look to Thee for grace, Black, I to the Fountain fly ;— Wash me, Saviour, or I die !" During the night — his last night... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - Wit and humor - 1852 - 350 pages
...know, Could my tears forever flow, All for sin could not atone : THOU must save, and THOU alone 1 1 Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to THY cross I...to the Fountain fly, "Wash me, SAVIOUR ! or I die ! ' While I draw this fleeting breath, When my eyes are closed in death, When I soar to worlds unknown,... | |
 | Hymns - 1852 - 348 pages
...thy law's demands ; Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tears for ever flow, All for sin could not atone — Thou must save, and thou alone. 3 Nothing...I cling, Naked, come to thee for dress, Helpless, Lord, to thee for grace ; Vile, I to the Fountain fly — Wash me, Saviour, or I die. 4 While I draw... | |
 | Augustus Montague Toplady - 1852 - 160 pages
...respite know, Gould my tears for ever flow, All for sin could not atone, Thou must save, and thou alone. Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to thy cross I...to thee for dress, Helpless, look to thee for grace t Foul, I to the fountain fl; Wash me. Saviour, or I die. die. While I draw this fleeting breath, When... | |
 | John Henry Paul Reumann - Religion - 1968 - 568 pages
...community, and that none of them go back to Jesus himself. 66. Cf. such hymns as AM Toplady's "Rock of Ages" ("Nothing in my hand I bring, / Simply to thy Cross I cling; / Naked, come to thee for dress; . . . When I soar to worlds unknown, / See thee on thy judgment throne, / Rock of Ages, cleft for me,... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1881 - 654 pages
...of a swarthy, half naked Topas, and it seemed on his lips to have a double meaning, as he sang — " Naked, come to thee for dress ; Helpless, look to thee for grace ; Slack, I to the fountain fly, — Wash me, Saviour, or I die." Another sang a native hymn, which... | |
 | Lionel Adey - Music - 1986 - 294 pages
...neurotic, was what Toplady had in common with the Wesleys. Even more common was the self-abasement of "Foul, I to the fountain fly; / Wash me. Saviour, or I die." Watts and Wesley regard themselves as "worms of earth;" Newton is amazed that Christ would die to "save... | |
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Nothing in my hand I bring ; Simply to Thy Cross I cling ; Naked, come to Thee for dress ; Helpless, look to Thee for grace ; Foul, I to the Fountain fly ; Wash me, Saviour, or I die. 
