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ON FREE GRACE.
5 Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
6 The world shall soon to ruin go,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who called me here below,
Shall be forever mine.
4 C. M.
Free grace displayed on the cross.
1 A S on the cross the Saviour hung,
/A And wept, and bled, and died,
He poured salvation on a wretch
That languished at his side.
2 His crimes, with inward grief and shame,
The penitent confessed;
Then turned his dying eyes to Christ,
And thus his prayer addressed:
3 “Jesus, thou Son and heir of Heaven,
Thou spotless Lamb of God,
I see thee bathed in sweat and tears,
And welt’ring in thy blood.
4 “Yet quickly from these scenes of woe
In triumph thou shalt rise,
Burst through the gloomy shades of death
And shine above the skies.
5 “Amid the glories of that world,
Dear Saviour, think on me ;
And in the vict’ries of thy death
Let me a sharer be.”
6 His prayer the dying Jesus hears,
and instantly replies:
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