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Our Own Hymn Book: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Public, Social and Private Worship is unavailable, but you can change that!

For years, the congregation at the Metropolitan Tabernacle used two hymnals—one compiled by John Rippon and the other by Isaac Watts. The confusion caused by two hymnals prompted the church to compile this new hymnal during the years of Charles Spurgeon. Our Own Hymn Book reflects the sentiments of the church and Spurgeon’s influence. It contains the texts of hundreds of hymns, plus metrical...

my soul may cry, Had not the Lord been on my side; Had He not brought deliverance nigh, Then must my helpless soul have died. 2 Had not the Lord been on my side, My soul had been by Satan slain; And Tophet, opening large and wide, Would not have gaped for me in vain. 3 Lo floods of wrath, and floods of hell, In fierce impetuous torrents roll; Had not the Lord defended well, The waters had o’erwhelm’d my soul. 4 As when the fowler’s snare is broke, The bird escapes on cheerful wings; My soul, set