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CONVICTION AND CONVERSION.'
A vast and pon’drous load:
I read and saw this truth most plain,
* The sinner must be born again,’
Or drink the wrath of God.
5 Oft as I heard the preachers tell
How Jesus conquered death and hell,
And broke the fowler’s snare—
So oft I found this truth remain,
* The sinner must be born again,’
Or sink in deep despair.
3 But while in angnish thus I lay,
Jesus of Nazareth passed that way—
On me his pity moved :
Although I might be justly slain,
He spake, and I was born again—
By grace redeemed and loved.
7 To heaven the joyful tidings flew,
The angels tuned their harps anew,
And loftier notes did raise :
All hail the Lamb on Calvary slain!
For all who shall be born again
We’ll shout thine endless praise.
151 8s, and 7s,
Despair brightened by hope.
1 DOOR mourning soul, in deep distress,
1 Just wakened from a slumber,
Who wanders in sin’s wilderness,
One of the condemned number,
The thunder roars from Sinai’s mount,
Fills him with awful terror ;
And he like naught in God’s account,
All drowned with grief and sorrow.
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