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377, 378 HYMNS.
377.
« SacksUdings lamented.
1 "PjEAR Saviour, when my thoughts recall
The wonders of thy grace;
Low at thy feet asham’d I fall.
And hide this wretched face.
2 Shall love like thine be thus repaid ?
Ah vile ungrateful heart!
By earth’s low cares, detain’d, betray’d.
From Jesus to depart
3 From Jesus, who alone can give
True pleasure, peace, and rest:
When absent from the Lord, I live
Unsatisfied, unblest
4 But he, for his own mercy’s sake.
My waod’ring soul restores:
He bids the mourning heart paitake
The pardon it implores.
5 O while I breathe to thee, my Lord,
The penitential sigh.
Confirm the kind, forgiving word,
With pity in thine eye" P
6 Then shall the mourner at thy feet.
Rejoice to seek thy face i
And grateful own how kind 1 how sweet!
Thy condescending grace.
378.
The Mourning Backsliders.
1 TJEWILDER’D in this world of sin.
Among the shades of night;
My soul hath long a stranger been
To comfort’s cheering light.
£ By strong temptations close pursu’d.
And vexing cares opprest;