First Line: Lord, teach us how to pray aright,

Lord, teach us how to pray aright,
With reverence and with fear;
Though dust and ashes in Thy sight,
We may, we must draw near.

2 Burdened with guilt, convinced of sin,
In weakness, want, and woe,
Fightings without, and fears within,
Lord, whither shall we go ?

3God of all grace, we come to Thee
With broken, contrite hearts ;
Give, what Thine eye delights to see,
Truth in the inward parts.

4 Give deep humility ; the sense
Of godly sorrow give ;
A strong, desiring confidence
To hear Thy voice and live ;

5 Faith in the holy sacrifice
That can for sin atone ;
To cast our hopes, to rix our eyes,
On Christ, on Christ alone ;

6 Patience to watch, and wait, and weep,
Though mercy long delay ;
Courage, our fainting souls to keep,
And trust Thee, though Thou slay :

7 Give these, and then Thy will be done ;
Thus strengthened with all might,
We by Thy Spirit, and Thy Son,
Shall pray, and pray aright.