{"id":5377,"date":"2024-08-03T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?page_id=5377"},"modified":"2024-08-03T22:38:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T02:38:47","slug":"this-breaks-my-heart-of-stone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/hymn-of-the-day\/this-breaks-my-heart-of-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"This Breaks My Heart of Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">390\t7.6.8.  Charles Wesley, 1749<br>Praying for Restoration.\u2014 Luke 22:61-62: Isaiah 53:6<br> <br>JESUS, let thy pitying eye<br>Call back a wandering sheep;<br>False to thee, like Peter, I<br>Would fain like Peter, weep;<br>Let me be by grace restored,<br>On me be all its freeness shown;<br>Turn, and look upon me, Lord,<br>And break my heart of stone.<br><br>Saviour, Prince, enthroned above,<br>Repentance to impart,<br>Give me, through thy dying love, <br>The humble, contrite heart.<br>Give, what I have long implored.<br>A portion of thy love unknown,<br>Turn, and look upon me, Lord,<br>And break my heart of stone.<br><br>Look as when thy pitying eye<br>Was closed, that we might live; <br>\u201cFather,\u201d (at the point to die,<br>My Saviour gasped), \u201cforgive!\u201d<br>Surely, with that dying word,<br>He turns, and looks, and cries, \u201c \u2018Tis done.\u201d<br>my loving, bleeding Lord,<br>This breaks the heart of stone.<br><br>~from Gadsby's Hymns #390<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hymntime.com\/tch\/htm\/j\/l\/t\/p\/jltpitye.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cyberhymnal<\/a>, the original text had 12 verses.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>390 7.6.8. Charles Wesley, 1749Praying for Restoration.\u2014 Luke 22:61-62: Isaiah 53:6 JESUS, let thy pitying eyeCall back a wandering sheep;False to thee, like Peter, IWould fain like Peter, weep;Let me be by grace restored,On me be all its freeness shown;Turn, and look upon me, Lord,And break my heart of stone.Saviour, Prince, enthroned above,Repentance to impart,Give&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/hymn-of-the-day\/this-breaks-my-heart-of-stone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":692,"menu_order":340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5377","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1MnZf-1oJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5384,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5377\/revisions\/5384"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}