Confession, prayer, and praise.
  LORD! when we bend before thy throne,
  
  And our confessions pour,
  
  O may we feel the sins we own,
  
  And hate what we deplore.
  2 Our contrite spirits pitying see;
  
  True penitence impart:
  
  And let a healing ray from thee
  
  Beam peace into each heart.
  
  3 When we disclose our wants in prayer,
  
  O let our wills resign;
  
  And not a thought our bosom share,
  
  Which is not wholly thine.
  4 And when with heart and voice
  
  We strive our grateful hymns to raise,
  
  Let love divine within us live,
  
  And fill our souls with praise.
  5 Then, on thy glories while we dwell,
  
  Thy mercies we’ll review;
  
  With love divine, transported, tell——
  
  Thou, God, art Father too.
                Pratt's col.
                Episcopal Methodist hymnal (1870 edition)
  
    <idle musing>
    I have no idea what Pratt's col. is, but I suspect it's a collection of hymns assembled by a C. M. Pratt, or at least it seems the initials are C. M. Beyond that, I'm unable to discover more, but it does seem to be the source of quite a few hymns that appear in nineteenth-century hymnals.
    
      If anyone can supply more information, I would be most grateful!
      </idle musing>
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