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CONVICTION AND CONVERSION.
167 7s and 6s.
Christian experience.
1 POME, all ye weary pilgrims,
Who feel your need of Christ,
Surrounded by temptations,
And by the world despised:
Attend to what I’ll tell you ;
My exercise I’ll show ;
And then you may inform me
If it be so with you.
2 Long time I lived in darkness,
Nor saw my dangerous state,
And when I was awakened,
I thought it was too late:
A lost and helpless sinner
Myself I plainly saw,
Exposed to God’s displeasure,
Condemned by his law.
3 I thought the brute creation
Was better off than I ;
I spent my days in anguish,
In pain and misery :
Through deep distress and sorrow
My Saviour led me on,
Revealed to me his kindness,
When all my hopes were gone.
4 When first I was delivered,
I hardly could believe
That I, so vile a sinner,
Such favor should receive;
Although his solemn praises
Were flowing from my tongue,
Yet fears were oft suggested,
That yet I might be wrong.
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