Come, Humble Sinner (Fairfield) 29t

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Composer: Miles Hitchcock, 1791
Alto: Wilson Marion Cooper, 1902
Poet: Edmund Jones, 1787
Meter: Common Meter (8,6,8,6)

	Stanza	Poetry Source by First Line
1	Come, humble sinner, in whose breast A thousand thoughts revolve, Come with your guilt and fear oppressed And make this last resolve.	Come, humble Sinner, in whose Breast, Stanza 1
2	I'll go to Jesus, though my sin, Hath like a mountain rose, I know His courts, I'll enter in, Whatever may oppose.	Come, humble Sinner, in whose Breast, Stanza 2
3	I can but perish if I go, I am resolved to try, For if I stay away I know, I must forever die.	Come, humble Sinner, in whose Breast, Stanza 6