God of Mercy and Compassion (II)

God of mercy and compassion,
Lord of life and blinding light.
Truth whom creatures would refashion,
Force on us the gift of sight.

Truth insistent and demanding,
Love resented and ignored,
Life beyond all understanding,
Give us peace and pardon, Lord.


God most holy and forgiving,
Penetrate our pride and sloth;
On a people partly living,
Force the gift of life and growth.

Truth insistent and demanding,
Love resented and ignored,
Life beyond all understanding,
Give us peace and pardon, Lord.


Lord, who out of love consented
To the worst that we could do;
Lord, abandoned and tormented,
Let us love and suffer too.

Truth insistent and demanding,
Love resented and ignored,
Life beyond all understanding,
Give us peace and pardon, Lord.

Michael Hodgetts

God of Mercy and Compassion (I)

God of mercy and compassion,
Look with pity upon me,
Father let me call Thee Father,
‘Tis thy child returns to Thee.

Jesus Lord, I ask for mercy;
Let me not implore in vain;
All my sins, I now detest them,
Never will I sin again.


By my sins I have deserved
Death and endless misery,
Hell with all its pains and torments,
And for all eternity.

Jesus Lord, I ask for mercy;
Let me not implore in vain;
All my sins, I now detest them,
Never will I sin again.


By my sins I have abandoned
Right and claim to heaven above,
Where the Saints rejoice forever
In a boundless sea of love.

Jesus Lord, I ask for mercy;
Let me not implore in vain;
All my sins, I now detest them,
Never will I sin again.


See our Saviour, bleeding, dying,
On the cross of Calvary;
To that cross my sins have nailed Him,
Yet He bleeds and dies for me.

Jesus Lord, I ask for mercy;
Let me not implore in vain;
All my sins, I now detest them,
Never will I sin again.

Edmund Vaughan