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CONVICTION AND CONVERSION.
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The joy of assurance.
1 LTOW happy are they
Fl Who their Saviour obey,
And whose treasures are laid up above 1
Tongue cannot express
The sweet comfort and peace
Of a soul in its earliest love.
2 That comfort was mine
When the favor divine
I first found in the blood of the Lamb;
When my heart first believed,
O what joy I received !
What a heaven in Jesus’s name!
3 ’Twas a heaven below,
The Redeemer to know,
And the angels could do nothing more
Than to fall at his feet,
And the story repeat,
And the Saviour of sinners adore !
4 Jesus all the day long,
Was my joy and my song ;
O that all his salvation might see :
He hath loved me, I cried ;
He hath suffered and died,
To redeem such a rebel as me.
5 On the wings of his love
I was carried above
All sin and temptation and pain ;
I could not believe
That I ever should grieve,
That I ever should suffer again.
6 I rode on the sky,
Freely Justified I,
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