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CONVICTION AND CONVERSION.
2 The worst of all diseases
Is light compared with sin ;
On every part it seizes,
But rages most within ;
’Tis palsy, plague and fever,
And madness—all combined—
And none but a believer
The least relief can find.
3 From men, great skill professing,
I thought a cure to gain,
But this proved more distressing,
And added to my pain ;
Some said that nothing ailed me,
Some gave me up for lost;
Thus every refuge failed me,
And all my hopes were crossed.

4 At length this great physician,
(How matchless is his grace !)
Accepted my petition,
And undertook my case ;
First gave me sight to view him,
(For sin my eyes had sealed,)
Then bade me look unto him—
I looked, and I was healed.
5 A dying, risen Jesus,
Seen by the eye of faith,
At once from anguish freas us,
And saves the soul from death i
Come, then, to this Physician,
His help lie’ll freely give ;
He makes no hard condition,
’Tis C’lH, ‘look and live.’
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