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CONVICTION AND CONVERSION
3 Hark ! his dying words, ‘ Forgive,
Father, let the sinner live ;
Sinner, -wipe thy tears away,
I thy ransom freely pay.’
4 While I hear this grace revealed,
And obtain a pardon sealed,
All my soft affections move,
Wakened by the force of love.
5 Farewell, world, thy gold is dross,
Now I see the bleeding cross;
Jesus died to set me free,
From the law and sin and thee.
6 He has dearly bought my soul;
Lord, accept and claim the whole ;
To thy will I all resign,
Now no more my own but thine.
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1 i BRCY, O thou Son of David ! ’
1V1 Thus poor blind Bartimeus prayed,
‘Others by thy grace are saved,
O vouchsafe to me thine aid ! ’
For his crying many chide him,
But he cried the louder still,
Till the gracious Saviour bid him,
‘ Come and ask me w’hat you will.’
2 Money was not what he wanted,
Though by begging used to live,
But he asked, and Jesus granted,
Alms that none but he could give :
‘ Lord, remove this grievous blindness.
Let my eyes behold the day;’
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