Sin

Jesus Christ

Jesus battles and overcomes sin, offering deliverance from its power and guilt.

Jesus Christ

Jesus battles and overcomes sin, offering deliverance from its power and guilt.

Jesus Christ

Jesus battles and overcomes sin, offering deliverance from its power and guilt.

Jehovah-Shalem—The Lord Send Peace

The cause of guilt and wrath from which believers are redeemed.

Wisdom

Humanity's sinfulness is acknowledged, as they 'slighted' and 'nail'd' Christ to the tree.

Vanity of Life

Identified as the cause of the world's woe and the reason for decay and death.

Vanity of the Creature Sanctified

Sin is identified as the root cause of all pain, thorns, and stings in the world.

Look Unto Me, and Be Ye Saved

Personified as a burden and guilt that the sinner is told to stop poring over, and which is forgiven and cleansed by Christ.

The Good Physician

Personified as the worst disease, affecting every part and raging within.

67: Jehovah Our Righteousness

Personified as an entangling force that pollutes praise and prayer.

They Shall Be Mine, Saith the Lord

Sinners boast in their shame, representing the wicked who will face vengeance.

A Sick Soul

Personified as a distemper that spreads through the entire being, causing spiritual sickness.

The House of Prayer

Sin is personified as part of a 'thievish swarm' that steals joy and robs Christ of praise.

Salvation Drawing Nearer

Personified as a force that still has place in believers' lives and as a transgression of the Saviour's laws.

The Inward Warfare

The power of sin that contends with grace within the believer.

New Year's Hymns

Described as the source of sorrow and the cause of the curse on the world.

Death and War. 1778

Sin is identified as the fruitful seed producing great sorrow and provoking divine judgment.

Prayer for a Blessing

The guilt of former sin is acknowledged and prayed for mercy.

Pleading for and with Youth

Personified as the cause of humanity's wretched condition.

Harvest

Personified as an opposing force that cannot destroy grace's crop.

Saturday Evening

Personified as the only return made by the ungrateful, and as something to be conquered by the gospel.

Christ Crucified

Personified as a power that is overcome by the cross, unable to move the transformed believer.

It Is Good to Be Here

Personified as the force that slew the Lamb of God and from which the believer is freed.

Looking at the Cross

Personified as the cause of Christ's death, whose guilt is exposed and pardoned.

67: The Hiding-Place. Feb. 10, 1779

The sinful land that incurs divine wrath.

On the Earthquake. Sept. 8, 1775

Personified as the cause of Britain's guilt and the reason for the earthquake.

The Day of Judgment

Implied in the warning to the careless sinner whose heart will be confounded and who will face condemnation.

The Day of the Lord

Personified as the state of sinners who provoke God's face and presume on His patience.

The Flood

Personified as a flood that drowns the soul when accumulated.

The Thaw

Sin is depicted as hardness of heart, which is dissolved by grace.

Alarm

Personified as sins of a blood-crimson dye that will crowd around the sinner, each crying for vengeance.

We Were Once as You Are

Described as a realm of vexation and false pleasure, incapable of providing true contentment.

Prepare to Meet God

Sin is one of the foes that believers will overcome through trusting in the Lord's name.

Invitation

The condition from which sinners are called to turn, and which Christ hates yet provides deliverance from.

Self-Acquaintance

The sinful heart is the subject of the poem, containing fiery seeds of anger and other evils.

Hear What He Has Done for My Soul!

The state of security in sin from which the narrator is rescued.

V: Dedication and Surrender

Depicted as an enslaving force that is hated and ultimately defeated by the view of Jesus.

The Heart Healed and Changed by Mercy

Personified as an enslaving master that led the speaker bound and blind for many years.

Hatred of Sin

Sin is personified as a serpent's tooth and a poison, the only thing hated.

Salvation

Deserving death, most hateful and abhorred, yet the sinner lives by faith.

Praise to the Redeemer

Personified as a enslaving power from which believers are delivered.

Man by Nature, Grace, and Glory

Stained the divine flame, bringing darkness, strife, and death.