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WEEPING sinner, dry your tears,

A Compassionate Saviour.

Poet: Oliver Holden, 1806
Meter: 7s (7,7,7,7)
Location in The Sacred Harp
Stanza Denson Cooper
1
WEEPING sinner, dry your tears,
Jesus on His throne appears;
Mercy stoops her balmy wing,
Bids you his salvation sing.


Weeping Sinners 108t, Stanza 1

Weeping Sinners 108t, Stanza 1
2
Trembling Mary found a rest;
Others lean'd upon his breast;
Surely you may come and find
Jesus never was unkind.



3
Pity brought him from on high,
Us he saw in ruin lie;
God of angels stoop'd to earth,
Seraphs sung a Saviour's birth.



4
Shepherds found him where he lay
On his glorious natal day;
Eastern Magi saw his star,
They to view him came from far.



5
In the temple Simeon stands,
Takes the infant in his hands;
Holy rapture fill'd his tongue
While his Saviour's praise he sung.



6
"Let thy servant now depart"
(Was the language of his heart;)
"Life can yield no more below,
Heaven's my home and there I'll go."



7
Weeping sinner, dry your tears;
Jesus in the heavens appears;
One he hung upon the tree,
There he dy'd for you and me.



8
Peace he brings you by his death,
Peace he speaks with every breath;
Can you slight such heav'nly charms?
Flee, O flee to Jesus' arms.


Weeping Sinners 108t, Stanza 2

Weeping Sinners 108t, Stanza 2

Holden, Oliver. The Young Convert's Companion: Being a Collection of Hymns for the Use of Conference Meetings. Boston: Printed by E. Lincoln, 1806.