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CONVICTION AND CONVERSION.
8 Didst not thou send thy Son to die
For guilty worms who pine and cry ?
O let the vilest now come nigh—
Lord, save a soul condemned to die.
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The successful resolve.
1 r"'* OME, humble sinner, in whose breast
A thousand thoughts revolve,
Come, with your guilt and fear oppressed
. And make this last resolve ;
2 I’ll go to Jesus, though my sin
Has like a mountain rose ;
I know his courts, I’ll enter in
Whatever may oppose.
8 Prostrate I’ll lie before his throne,
And there my guilt confess ;
I’ll tell him I'm a wretch undone,
Without his sovereign grace.
4 I’ll to the gracious king approach,
Whose sceptre pardon gives ;
Perhaps he may command my touch,
And then the suppliant lives.
5 Perhaps he may admit my plea,
Perhaps will hear my prayer;
But if I perish, I will pray,
And perish only there.
6 I can but perish if I go ;
I am resolved to try ;
For if I stay away I know
I must forever die.
7 But if I die with mercy sought,
When I the King have tried,
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