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!