Olney Hymns

About this book

The hymn collection John Newton and William Cowper prepared for their parish at Olney, published in 1779. Written for ordinary worshippers, the hymns move through the Christian year and the experiences of grace, and include Newton's 'Amazing Grace' and 'Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken.' Few hymnbooks have left so deep a mark on evangelical singing.

Contents

1. Preface
2. 1. On man, in his own image made
3. 2. When Adam fell he quickly lost
4. 3. O! for a closer walk with God
5. 4. By faith in CHRIST I walk with God
6. 5. How hurtful was the choice of Lot
7. 6. The saints should never be dismayed
8. 7. Though troubles assail
9. 8. Poor Esau repented too late
10. 9. If the LORD our leader be
11. 10. Nay, I cannot let Thee go
12. 11. My soul once had its plenteous years
13. 12. When Joseph his brethren beheld
14. 13. Bitter, indeed, the waters are
15. 14. Heal us, EMMANUEL, here we are
16. 15. Manna to Israel well supplied
17. 16. The manna favored Israel’s meat
18. 17. By whom was David taught
19. 18. When Israel heard the fiery law
20. 19. See Aaron, God’s anointed priest
21. 20. How blest the righteous are
22. 21. When Joshua, by GOD’s command
23. 22. Jesus, whose blood so freely streamed
24. 23. The signs which GOD to Gideon gave
25. 24. The lion that on Sampson roared
26. 25. When Hannah pressed with grief
27. 26. When first to make my heart his own 🔒
28. 27. The kine unguided went 🔒
29. 28. When first my soul enlisted 🔒
30. 29. How David, when by sin deceived 🔒
31. 30. Poor, weak, and worthless though I am 🔒
32. 31. Come, my soul, thy suit prepare 🔒
33. 32. If Solomon for wisdom prayed 🔒
34. 33. Behold the throne of grace! 🔒
35. 34. From Sheba a distant report 🔒
36. 35. Elijah’s example declares 🔒
37. 36. By the poor widow’s oil and meal 🔒
38. 37. Though Jericho pleasantly stood 🔒
39. 38. Before Elisha’s gate 🔒
40. 39. The prophets sons, in time of old 🔒
41. 40. Alas! Elisha’s servant cried 🔒
42. 41. Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound) 🔒
43. 42. Joy is a fruit that will not grow 🔒
44. 43. Sweet was the time when first I felt 🔒
45. 44. Savior shine and cheer my soul 🔒
46. 45. In mercy, not in wrath, rebuke 🔒
47. 46. How tedious and tasteless the hours 🔒
48. 47. Incarnate God! the soul that knows 🔒
49. 48. That man no guard or weapons needs 🔒
50. 49. When Israel was from Egypt freed 🔒
51. 50. For mercies, countless as the sands 🔒
52. 51. What a mournful life is mine 🔒
53. 52. Ere God had built the mountains 🔒
54. 53. One there is, above all others 🔒
55. 54. The evils that beset our path 🔒
56. 55. God gives his mercies to be spent; 🔒
57. 56. Honey though the bee prepares 🔒
58. 57. How sweet the name of Jesus sounds 🔒
59. 58. I Will praise thee every day 🔒
60. 59. He who on earth as man was known 🔒
61. 60. Glorious things of thee are spoken 🔒
62. 61. As the serpent raised by Moses 🔒
63. 62. How lost was my condition 🔒
64. 63. Pensive, doubting, fearful heart 🔒
65. 64. The LORD will happiness divine 🔒
66. 65. Hear what God the LORD hath spoken 🔒
67. 66. As parched in the barren sands 🔒
68. 67. My God! how perfect are thy ways! 🔒
69. 68. My God! till I received thy stroke 🔒
70. 69. From pole to pole let others roam 🔒
71. 70. Once perishing in blood I lay 🔒
72. 71. The Lord proclaims his grace abroad! 🔒
73. 72. As birds their infant brood protect 🔒
74. 73. Supported by the word 🔒
75. 74. Poor sinners! little do they think 🔒
76. 75. As once for Jonah, so the Lord 🔒
77. 76. Son of God! thy people’s shield! 🔒
78. 77. With Satan, my accuser near 🔒
79. 78. Jesus Christ, the Lord’s anointed 🔒
80. 79. There is a fountain filled with blood 🔒
81. 80. When sinners utter boasting words 🔒
82. 81. Encouraged by thy word 🔒
83. 82. Oft as the leper’s case I read 🔒
84. 83. Physician of my sin–sick soul 🔒
85. 84. When Jesus claims the sinner’s heart 🔒
86. 85. Ye sons of earth prepare the plow 🔒
87. 86. Though in the outward church below 🔒
88. 87. A Word from JESUS calms the sea 🔒
89. 88. Prayer an answer will obtain 🔒
90. 89. What think you of Christ? is the test 🔒
91. 90. When descending from the sky 🔒
92. 91. When Peter boasted, soon he fell 🔒
93. 92. Legion was my name by nature 🔒
94. 93. Could the creatures help or ease us 🔒
95. 94. When the disciples crossed the lake 🔒
96. 95. Mercy, O thou Son of David! 🔒
97. 96. Thy mansion is the christian’s heart 🔒
98. 97. One aweful word which JESUS spoke 🔒
99. 98. Once a woman silent stood 🔒
100. 99. How kind the good Samaritan 🔒
101. 100. Martha her love and joy expressed 🔒
102. 101. The castle of the human heart 🔒
103. 102. My barns are full, my stores increase 🔒
104. 103. The church a garden is 🔒
105. 104. Afflictions, though they seem severe; 🔒
106. 105. A Worldling spent each day 🔒
107. 106. Our Lord, who knows full well 🔒
108. 107. Zaccheus climbed the tree 🔒
109. 108. Simon, beware! the Savior said 🔒
110. 109. Father, forgive (the Savior said) 🔒
111. 110. Sovereign grace has pow’r alone 🔒
112. 111. Jesus, to what didst thou submit 🔒
113. 112. Beside the gospel pool 🔒
114. 113. Here at Bethesda’s pool, the poor 🔒
115. 114. Constrained by their LORD to embark 🔒
116. 115. When any turn from Zion’s way 🔒
117. 116. I Am, saith CHRIST our glorious head 🔒
118. 117. Mary to her Savior’s tomb 🔒
119. 118. Hark, my soul! it is the LORD; 🔒
120. 119. ’Tis a point I long to know 🔒
121. 120. As some tall rock amidst the waves 🔒
122. 121. Lord, thou hast won, at length I yield 🔒
123. 122. Fervent persevering prayers 🔒
124. 123. A Believer, free from care 🔒
125. 124. Then the apostle wonders wrought 🔒
126. 125. If Paul in Caesar’s court must stand 🔒
127. 126. I would, but cannot sing 🔒
128. 127. Darkness overspreads us here 🔒
129. 128. When Israel’s tribes were parched with thirst 🔒
130. 129. Oppressed with unbelief and sin 🔒
131. 130. Strange and mysterious is my life 🔒
132. 131. Fierce passions discompose the mind 🔒
133. 132. Israel in ancient days 🔒
134. 133. The word of CHRIST, our Lord 🔒
135. 134. By various maxims, forms and rules 🔒
136. 135. Afflictions do not come alone 🔒
137. 136. Thus saith the LORD to Ephesus 🔒
138. 137. The message first to Smyrna sent 🔒
139. 138. Write to Sardis, saith the Lord 🔒
140. 139. Thus saith the holy One, and true 🔒
141. 140. Hear what the Lord, the great Amen 🔒
142. 141. When the beloved disciple took 🔒
143. 1. While with ceaseless course the sun 🔒
144. 2. Time, with an unwearied hand 🔒
145. 3. See! another year is gone! 🔒
146. 4. Time, by moments, steals away 🔒
147. 5. Hark! how time’s wide sounding bell 🔒
148. 6. Oft in vain the voice of truth 🔒
149. 7. Now, gracious Lord, thine arm reveal 🔒
150. 8. Bestow, dear Lord, upon our youth 🔒
151. 9. Now may fervent prayer arise 🔒
152. 10. When Peter through the tedious night 🔒
153. 11. Sin has undone our wretched race 🔒
154. 12. Gracious Lord, our children see 🔒
155. 13. The Shunemite, oppressed with grief 🔒
156. 14. Does it not grief, and wonder move 🔒
157. 15. Preachers may, from Ezekiel’s case 🔒
158. 16. When Moses waved his mystic rod 🔒
159. 17. The God who once to Israel spoke 🔒
160. 18. O Thou, at whose almighty word 🔒
161. 19. Elisha, struck with grief and awe 🔒
162. 20. O David’s Son, and David’s Lord! 🔒
163. 21. Let us adore the grace that seeks 🔒
164. 22. Jesus, who bought us with his blood 🔒
165. 23. Ensnared, too long, my heart has been 🔒
166. 24. Zion! the city of our God 🔒
167. 25. Beneath the tyrant Satan’s yoke 🔒
168. 26. What contradictions meet 🔒
169. 27. Thy message, by the preacher, seal 🔒
170. 28. When Paul was parted from his friends 🔒
171. 29. Alas! by nature how depraved 🔒
172. 30. See, how rude winter’s icy hand 🔒
173. 31. Though cloudy skies, and northern blasts 🔒
174. 32. Bleak winter is subdued at length 🔒
175. 33. Pleasing spring again is here! 🔒
176. 34. Though the morn may be serene 🔒
177. 35. The grass, and flow’rs, which clothe the field 🔒
178. 36. See! the corn again in ear! 🔒
179. 37. Sweeter founds than music knows 🔒
180. 38. My song shall bless the LORD of all 🔒
181. 39. Now let us join with hearts and tongues 🔒
182. 40. Safely through another week 🔒
183. 41. The LORD, our salvation and light 🔒
184. 42. Let hearts and tongues unite 🔒
185. 43. O LORD, our languid souls inspire 🔒
186. 44. Jesus, where’er thy people meet 🔒
187. 45. How welcome to the saints, when pressed 🔒
188. 46. O happy they who know the Lord 🔒
189. 47. Happy are they, to whom the LORD 🔒
190. 48. Once, while we aimed at Zion’s songs 🔒
191. 49. Gladness was spread through Israel’s host 🔒
192. 50. Chief Shepherd of thy chosen sheep 🔒
193. 51. Savior, visit thy plantation 🔒
194. 52. My harp untuned, and laid aside 🔒
195. 53. This is the feast of heav’nly wine 🔒
196. 54. When on the cross, my Lord I see 🔒
197. 55. The Savior! what a noble flame 🔒
198. 56. Let me dwell on Golgotha 🔒
199. 57. In evil long I took delight 🔒
200. 58. When Israel by divine command 🔒
201. 59. Refreshed by the bread and wine 🔒
202. 60. What various hindrances we meet 🔒
203. 61. In themselves, as weak as worms 🔒
204. 62. The Spirit breathes upon the word 🔒
205. 63. Precious Bible! what a treasure 🔒
206. 64. The gath’ring clouds, with aspect dark 🔒
207. 65. O, may the pow’r which melts the rock 🔒
208. 66. While Joshua led the armed bands 🔒
209. 67. See the gloomy gath’ring cloud 🔒
210. 68. Although on massy pillars built 🔒
211. 69. Wearied by day with toils and cares 🔒
212. 70. Kindred in CHRIST, for his dear sake 🔒
213. 71. As the sun’s enliv’ning eye 🔒
214. 72. In vain my fancy strives to paint 🔒
215. 73. His master taken from his head 🔒
216. 74. Oft as the bell, with solemn toll 🔒
217. 75. My soul, this curious house of clay 🔒
218. 76. Courage, my soul! behold the prize 🔒
219. 77. Day of judgment, day of wonders! 🔒
220. 78. God, with one piercing glance, looks through 🔒
221. 79. John in vision saw the day 🔒
222. 80. That was a wonder–working word 🔒
223. 81. The book of nature open lies 🔒
224. 82. When the sun, with cheerful beams 🔒
225. 83. When a black overspreading cloud 🔒
226. 84. A Glance from heav’n, with sweet effect 🔒
227. 85. The moon in silver glory shone 🔒
228. 86. The moon has but a borrowed light 🔒
229. 87. If for a time the air be calm 🔒
230. 88. Though small the drops of falling rain 🔒
231. 89. The ice and snow we lately saw 🔒
232. 90. As needles point towards the pole 🔒
233. 91. On the same flow’r we often see 🔒
234. 92. The subtle spider often weaves 🔒
235. 93. A Lion, though by nature wild 🔒
236. 94. The Savior calls his people sheep 🔒
237. 95. A Garden contemplation suits 🔒
238. 96. A Shelter from the rain or wind 🔒
239. 97. The water stood like walls of brass 🔒
240. 98. When slumber seals our weary eyes 🔒
241. 99. See, the world for youth prepares 🔒
242. 100. Blinded in youth by Satan’s arts 🔒
243. 1. No words can declare 🔒
244. 2. Stop, poor sinner! stop and think 🔒
245. 3. Shall men pretend to pleasure 🔒
246. 4. Sinner, art thou still secure? 🔒
247. 5. Sinner, hear the Savior’s call 🔒
248. Similar Hymns 🔒
249. 6. Ah, what can I do 🔒
250. 7. O LORD, how vile am I 🔒
251. 8. My former hopes are dead 🔒
252. 9. My soul is beset 🔒
253. 10. Breathe from the gentle South, O LORD 🔒
254. 11. Cheer up, my soul, there is a mercy–seat 🔒
255. 12. Approach, my soul, the mercy–seat 🔒
256. 13. To those who know the LORD I speak 🔒
257. 14. Does the gospel–word proclaim 🔒
258. Similar Hymns 🔒
259. 15. God moves in a mysterious way 🔒
260. 16. ’Tis my happiness below 🔒
261. 17. O How I love thy holy word 🔒
262. 18. The billows swell the winds are high 🔒
263. 19. God of my life, to thee I call 🔒
264. 20. My soul is sad and much dismayed; 🔒
265. 21. ’Tis past—the dreadful stormy night 🔒
266. 22. Unless the LORD had been my stay 🔒
267. 23. When darkness long has veiled my mind 🔒
268. 24. The Savior hides his face! 🔒
269. 25. When my prayers are a burden and task 🔒
270. 26. Dear Lord accept a sinful heart 🔒
271. 27. Kindle, Savior, in my heart 🔒
272. 28. Lord, who hast suffered all for me 🔒
273. 29. O Lord, my best desire fulfill 🔒
274. 30. When my Savior, my Shepherd is near 🔒
275. 31. Return to bless my waiting eyes 🔒
276. 32. Though sore beset with guilt and fear 🔒
277. 33. Forest beasts, that live by prey 🔒
278. 34. When the poor pris’ner through a grate 🔒
279. 35. Uncertain how the way to find 🔒
280. 36. I asked the LORD that I might grow 🔒
281. 37. Begone unbelief 🔒
282. 38. If to Jesus for relief 🔒
283. 39. Unbelief the soul dismays 🔒
284. 40. Be still my heart! these anxious cares 🔒
285. 41. One glance of thine, eternal LORD 🔒
286. 42. From Egypt lately freed 🔒
287. Similar Hymns 🔒
288. 43. Sight, hearing, feeling, taste and smell 🔒
289. 44. How blest thy creature is, O God 🔒
290. 45. Far from the world, O Lord, I flee 🔒
291. 46. Why should I fear the darkest hour 🔒
292. 47. To tell the Savior all my wants 🔒
293. 48. Sometimes a light surprises 🔒
294. 49. Lord my soul with pleasure springs 🔒
295. 50. Honor and happiness unite 🔒
296. 51. I was a groveling creature once 🔒
297. 52. Yes! since God himself has said it 🔒
298. 53. O, speak that gracious word again 🔒
299. 54. Saved by blood I live to tell 🔒
300. 55. While I lived without the Lord 🔒
301. 56. When the wounded spirit hears 🔒
302. 57. When Hagar found the bottle spent 🔒
303. 58. As when the weary travell’r gains 🔒
304. Similar Hymns 🔒
305. 59. Let worldly minds the world pursue 🔒
306. 60. Happy the birth where grace presides 🔒
307. 61. I thirst, but not as once I did 🔒
308. 62. No strength of nature can suffice 🔒
309. 63. Sin enslaved me many years 🔒
310. 64. Holy LORD GOD! I love thy truth 🔒
311. 65. Quiet, LORD, my froward heart 🔒
312. 66. Fix my heart and eyes on thine! 🔒
313. 67. Ten thousand talents once I owed 🔒
314. Similar Hymns 🔒
315. 68. The new–born child of gospel–grace 🔒
316. 69. O God, whose favorable eye 🔒
317. 70. Zeal is that pure and heav’nly flame 🔒
318. 71. The LORD receives his highest praise 🔒
319. 72. Too many, LORD, abuse thy grace 🔒
320. 73. What thousands never knew the road! 🔒
321. 74. To keep the lamp alive 🔒
322. 75. Grace, triumphant in the throne 🔒
323. 76. Sin, when viewed by scripture light 🔒
324. 77. Destruction’s dangerous road 🔒
325. 78. The wishes that the sluggard frames 🔒
326. 79. How soon the Savior’s gracious call 🔒
327. Similar Hymns 🔒
328. 80. Of all the gifts thine hand bestows 🔒
329. 81. Almighty King! whose wondrous hand 🔒
330. 82. Let us love, and sing, and wonder 🔒
331. 83. Winter has a joy for me 🔒
332. 84. Rejoice, believer, in the LORD 🔒
333. 85. Salvation! what a glorious plan 🔒
334. 86. Now may the LORD reveal his face 🔒
335. 87. Prepare a thankful song 🔒
336. 88. Lord, what is man! extremes how wide 🔒
337. Similar Hymns 🔒
338. 89. Confirm the hope thy word allows 🔒
339. 90. Now, LORD, inspire the preacher’s heart 🔒
340. 91. Thy promise, LORD, and thy command 🔒
341. 92. Hungry, and faint, and poor 🔒
342. 93. Remember us, we pray thee, LORD 🔒
343. 94. Not to Sinai’s dreadful blaze 🔒
344. 95. Often thy public means of grace 🔒
345. 96. With Israel’s God who can compare? 🔒
346. 97. JESUS is mine! I’m now prepared 🔒
347. 98. We seek a rest beyond the skies 🔒
348. 99. The saints EMMANUEL’S portion are 🔒
349. 100. Now may He who from the dead 🔒
350. 101. May the grace of CHRIST our Savior 🔒
351. 102. The peace which God alone reveals 🔒
352. 103. To thee our wants are known 🔒
353. 104. The Father we adore 🔒
354. 105. Father of angels and of men 🔒
355. 106. Glory to God, the FATHER’S name 🔒
356. 107. Ye saints on earth ascribe with heav’ns high host 🔒