O Holy Spirit, Come, I Pray

Don Fortner

(Tune: When I Can Read My Title Clear #497 CM)

The preacher’s words and doctrine sound

Can never save a soul.

The Spirit of the Lord must wound,

And make the wounded whole.

God’s free election, though it’s truth,

Can never comfort me,

Until I’m told by God’s own mouth

That He has chosen me.

Sinners, I know, are justified

By sin-atoning blood;

But it’s the blood by grace applied

That does this sinner good.

O Holy Spirit, come, I pray.

The Word of God apply

To chosen sinners yet astray

And those by grace brought nigh!