The sorrowful Lamentation of a Penitent Sinner.
To the Tune of, The Lamentation of a Sinner .
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O Lord my God I come to thee,
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in all my grief and pain,
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Now turn to me in my distress,
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and comfort me again:
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And enter not to judgment Lord,
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with sinful dust and clay.
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Nor with thy servant be not wrath
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nor turn thy face away.
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And lay not Lord thy hand on me,
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too heavy is thy fume,
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For I am week and in thy wrath,
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I quickly shall consume:
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I am afraid of thee O Lord,
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because thou didst me beat,
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But yet I know that Jesus Christ,
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will for my soul intreat.
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I am a sinful wretch, O Lord,
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for mercy I do cry,
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Now help me Lord in my distress,
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and extream misery:
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For unto thee Lord do I cry,
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by night and eke by day,
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Now help me for thy mercy sake,
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and that without delay.
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But do not beat me over much,
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my loving Father sweet.
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Lest that this frail and wicked flesh,
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should from sweet Jesus fleet
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I come again unto thee Lord,
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I do thee now imbrace,
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And turn to me thy countenance,
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thy favour and thy face.
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And bring me home unto thy fold,
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for I am gone astray,
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And wandred in an unknown path,
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which brought me to decay.
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But now to thee my loving Lord,
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for mercy I do cry,
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Now hear my plaint sweet Jesus Christ
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and ease my misery.
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And when it is thy gracious will,
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that I this sinful life shall leave,
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Sweet Jesus Christ into thy hands
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I do my Soul bequeath:
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And here I do intreat thee Lord,
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from the bottom of my heart,
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That from my faith in Jesus Christ,
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I never do depart.
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But in the very pangs of death,
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to thee Lord may I cry,
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Receive my Soul into thy hands,
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for now to thee I flye:
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And be a Father loving Lord,
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unto thy Children small,
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Which I shall leave thee in this world,
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when thou dost for me call.
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Also I pray thee loving Lord,
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to give their mother grace,
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To train my Children in thy fear,
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that they may thee imbrace:
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And from the inticements of this world
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the flesh and filthy fiend,
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Lord aid them with thy mighty hand,
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and guide them to the end.
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That at the last and dreadful day,
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thou may'st receive us all,
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Under the cover of thy Wings,
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we may be free from thrall:
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And once again my loving Lord,
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I do thee hearty pray,
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Even for thy Son Christ Jesus sake,
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to wash our sins away.
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