If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9
Words: Horatius Bonar, Hymns of Faith and Hope, third series, 1866, pages 83–84.
Music: Kedron (Spratt) Ann B. Spratt, in the Book of Common Praise, 1866 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Alternate Tune:
If you know where to get a good picture of Spratt (head-and-shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
No, not despairingly
Come I to Thee;
No, not distrustingly
Bend I the knee:
Sin hath gone over me,
Yet is this still my plea,
Jesus hath died.
Ah! mine iniquity
Crimson hath been,
Infinite, infinite—
Sin upon sin:
Sin of not loving Thee,
Sin of not trusting Thee—
Infinite sin.
Lord, I confess to Thee
Sadly my sin;
All I am tell with Thee,
All I have been:
Purge Thou my sin away,
Wash Thou my soul this day;
Lord, make me clean.
Faithful and just art Thou,
Forgiving all;
Loving and kind art Thou
When poor ones call:
Lord, let the cleansing blood,
Blood of the Lamb of God,
Pass o’er my soul.
Then all is peace and light
This soul within;
Thus shall I walk with Thee,
The loved Unseen;
Leaning on Thee, my God,
Guided along the road,
Nothing between.