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CONVICTION and conversion.
This were to*die—delightful thought!
As sinner never died.
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The same,
1 O ESOLVING thus, I entered in,
Though trembling and depressed,
I bowed before the gracious King,
And all my sins confessed.
2 Sweet majesty and awful grace
Sat smiling on his brow ;
He turned to me his glorious facet,
And made my eyeso’erflow.
3 He held the sceptre out to me,
And bade me touch and live;
I touched, and O what mercy free
He did my sins forgive.
4 I touched, and lived and learned to love,
And triumphed in my God;
I set my heart on things aoove,
And sang redeeming blood.
5 Come, sinners, grieved with sins, distressed,
And ready to despair,
Take courage, though with guilt oppressed
Jesus still answers prayer.
6 Come, enter in with cheerful haste;
You may his glories see ;
You may his richest mercy taste—
He has forgiven me.
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Tor(l, remember me.
I TESUS, thou art the sinner’s friend,
As such I look to thee :