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CONVICTION AND CONVERSION.
1«1 S. M.
The pool of liethesda.
1 DESIDE the gospel pool,
D Appointed for the poor,
From time to time my helpless soul
Has waited for a cure.
2 How often have I seen
The healing waters move,
And others round me, stepping in,
Their efficacy prove !
3 But my complaints remain,
I feel the very same ;
As full of guilt, and fear, and pain
As when at first I came.
4 O would the Lord appear,
My malady to heal !
He knows how long I’ve languished here,
And what distress I feel.
5 [How often have I thought,
Why should I longer lie ;
Surely the mercy I have sought
Is not for such as I.
6 But whither can I go ?
there is no other pool,
Where streams of sovereign virtue flow
To mak a sinner whole.]
7 Here, then, from day to day,
I’ll wait, and hope, and try;
Can Jesus hear a sinner pray,
Yet suffer him to die ?
8 No, he is full of grace ;
He never will permit
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