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CHRISTIAN EXERCISES.
Its influence every fear disarms,
And spreads sweet comfort round.
2 Here, pardon, life, and joys divine,
In rich effusion flow,
For guilty rebels lost in sin,
And doomed to endless woe.
3 O the rich depths of love divine !
Of bliss a boundless store !
Dear Saviour, let me call thee mine,
I cannot wish for more.
4 On thee alone my hope relies ;
Beneath thy cross I fall;
My Lord, my life, my sacrifice,
My Saviour and my all.
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The mercy seat.
1 FROM every stormy wind that blows,
a From every swelling tide of woes,
There is a calm, a sure retreat—
’Tis found beneath the mercy-seat.
2 There is a place where Jesus sheds
The oil of gladness on our heads;
A place of all on earth most sweet—
It is the blood-bought mercy-seat.
3 There is a scene where spirits blend,
Where friend holds fellowship with friend ;
Though sundered far, by faith they meet
Around one common mercy-seat.
4 Ah ! whither could we flee for aid,
When tempted, desolate, dismayed ?
Or how the hosts of hell defeat,
Had suffering saints no mercy-seat ?
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