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213 HYMNS.
This precious truth affords relief,
To sinners, ev’n to me.
5 Of merit now let others speak.
But merit I have none !
I’m justified for Jesu’s sake,
I’m sav’d by grace alone.
4 ’Twas grace my-way ward heart first won,
’Tis grace that holds me fast:
Grace will complete the work begun.
And save me to the last.
5 Then shall my soul with rapture trace.
What God hath done for me ;
And celebrate redeeming grace,
Throughout eternity.
213.
The same. Jer. Hi. 19.
1 A LAS ! by nature how deprav’d,
How prone to ev’ry ill:
Our lives to Satan how enslav’d.
How obstinate our will!
2 And can such sinners be restor’d.
Such rebels reconcil’d ?
Can grace itself the means afford
To make a foe a child ?
3 Yes, grace has found the wondrous means,
Which shall effectual prove.
To cleanse us from our countless sins,
And teach our hearts to love.
4 Jesus for sinners undertakes,
And dies that we may live ;
His blood a full atonement makes.
And cries aloud, “ Forgive!” >
5 Yet one thing more must grace provide.
To bring us home to God,