Vain is the thought of man

Vain is the thought of man

Author: Mary Bowley Peters
Published in 4 hymnals


Representative Text

1 Vain is the thought of man
To merit heaven by prayer;
'Tis only Jesus' precious blood
Can give admission there.

2 Could ceaseless prayers ascend,
Could tears forever flow,
The soul were still unblest, unsaved,
And peace could never know.

3 But faith's one look at Christ
Expiring on the tree--
One heart-believing glance at Him
Can set the sinner free.

4 None can without the blood
Of Jesus be forgiven;
'Tis resting on the blood alone
That fits the soul for heaven.

Source: A Few Hymns and Some Spiritual Songs. Selected 1856, for the Little Flock. Revised, 1881 #56A

Author: Mary Bowley Peters

Peters, Mary, née Bowly, daughter of Richard Bowly, of Cirencester, was born in 1813, and subsequently married to the Rev. John McWilliam Peters, sometime Rector of Quennington, Gloucestershire, and died at Clifton, July 29, 1856. Her prose work, The World’s History from the Creation to the Accession of Queen Victoria, was published in seven volumes. Several of her hymns were contributed to the Plymouth Brethren's Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, London, D. Walther, 1842. These with others, 58 in all, were published by Nisbet & Co., London, 1847, as Hymns intended to help the Communion of Saints. Dr. Walker introduced several from these collections into his Cheltenham Psalms & Hymns, 1855. Many of these have been repeated in Snepp's… Go to person page >

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First Line: Vain is the thought of man
Author: Mary Bowley Peters
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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