Olney Hymns Book 3 Index

 

From Newton's Preface:

"The Hymns are distributed into three Books...

The third Book is miscellaneous, comprising a variety of subjects relative to a life of faith in the Son of God, which have no express reference either to a single text of Scripture, or to any determinate season or incident. These are farther subdivided into distinct heads."

[click on the first column no. to view individual hymns with their full words, a link to their ms image, and relevant excerpts from Newton's diary when that particular hymn was written]

[at present only those hymns with manuscript images are being entered here - for the words of other hymns use Google Books, e.g. search from this link, or at CCEL]

scroll down for latest entries in Book 3
 
No.
first line
subtitle
MS No.
for this date
 
1. SOLEMN ADDRESSES TO SINNERS
 
 
 
4
Sinner, art thou still secure?
Judgment
208
18 June 1775
5
Sinner, hear the Saviour's call
Invitation
324
25 October 1778
 
2. SEEKING, PLEADING AND HOPING
 
 
 
7
O Lord, how vile am I
Lord help me
215
13 August 1775
9
My soul is beset
Encouragement
229
24 December 1775
Does the gospel-word proclaim
Rest for weary Souls
236
17 March 1776
 
3. CONFLICT
 
 
 
Though sore beset with guilt and fear
Hope in the darkness
205
21 May 1775
When the poor prisoner through a grate
The Prisoner
248
7 July 1776
Uncertain how the way to find
Perplexity relieved
308
29 March 1778
Begone unbelief
Fear not
183
13 November 1774
If to Jesus for relief
Questions to Unbelief
199
12 March 1775
Be still my heart! these anxious cares
Why art thou cast down O my Soul?
203
30 April 1775
 
4. COMFORT
 
 
 
Sight, hearing, feeling, taste and smell
Faith a new Sense
179
[October 1774?]
Oh, speak that gracious word again
Peace Restored
202
7 May 1775
Saved by blood I live to tell
Hear what he has done for my soul
222
5 November 1775
While I lived without the Lord
Freedom from care
247
23 June 1776
When the wounded spirit hears
Humiliation & praise
242
12 May 1776
As when the weary traveller gains
Home in view
310
12 April 1778
 
5. DEDICATION AND SURRENDER
 
 
 
Fix my heart and eyes on thine!
True Happiness
218
8 October 1775
Ten thousand talents once I owed
The happy Debter
244
2 June 1776
 
6. CAUTIONS
 
 
 
Destruction's dangerous road
Are there few that shall be saved
243
19 May 1776
The wishes that the sluggard frames
The Sluggard
326
8 November 1778
How soon the Saviour's gracious call
Efficacy of Grace
240
[14 April 1776]
 
7. PRAISE
 
 
 
Prepare a thankful song
Praise to the Redeemer
214
30 July 1775 [?]
Lord, what is man! extremes how wide
Man by Nature, by Grace & in Glory
291
21 December 1777
 
8. SHORT HYMNS
 
 
 
Now, Lord, inspire the preacher's heart
Before sermon
 
[c. 22-29 November 1778]
Thy promise, Lord, and thy command
Before sermon
 
[c. January/February 1779?]
Hungry, and faint, and poor
Before sermon
 
[c. January/February 1779?]
Remember us, we pray thee, Lord
Before sermon
 
[c. January/February 1779?]
Not to Sinai's dreadful blaze
Before sermon
 
[c. January/February 1779?]
Often thy public means of grace
Before sermon
 
[c. January/February 1779?]
With Israel's God who can compare?
After sermon
 
[c. January/February 1779?]
We seek a rest beyond the skies
After sermon
 
[c. 22-29 November 1778]
Now may He who from the dead
After sermon
 
[c. 22-29 November 1778]
May the grace of Christ our Saviour
After sermon
 
[c. 22-29 November 1778]
The peace which God alone reveals
After sermon
 
[c. 22-29 November 1778]


Newton concluded his ms notebook with great relief:
 
s Long Gloria Patri


Image copyright:

Hymn: MS Eng 1317, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Princeton University, John Newton Diary, CO199

Marylynn Rouse, 27/09/2013