PRAYING FOR REPENTANCE.
0 let me tremble at thy word, And to my ways take heed! With sacred horror fly From every sinful snare; Nor ever, in my Judge's eye, My Judge's anger dare.
3 Thou great tremendous God, The conscious awe impart: The grace be now on me bestowed, The tender, fleshly heart: For Jesu's sake alone
The stony heart remove,
And melt at last, O melt me down Into the mould of love!
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2 Kings xxii. 19, 20. FOR that tenderness of heart
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¹0 the Lord,
Acknowledging how just thou art, And trembles at thy word!
O for those humble, contrite tears Which from repentance flow,
That consciousness of guilt which fears The long- suspended blow!
2 Saviour, to me in pity give
The sensible distress,
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The pledge thou wilt at last receive, And bid me die in peace;
Wilt from the dreadful day remove,
Before the evil come;
My spirit hide with saints above, My body in the tomb.
2 Saviour, and Prince of peace, The double grace bestow; Unloose the bands of wickedness, And let the captive go: Grant me my sins to feel, And then the load remove;
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O that I could believe!
Thou by thy voice the marble rent, The rock in sunder cleave! Thou, by thy two- edged sword, My soul and spirit part,
Strike with the hammer of thy word, And break my stubborn heart!
3 For thy own mercy's sake, The cursed thing remove;
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Wound, and pour in, my wounds to heal, The balm of pardoning love.
4 This is thy will, I know,
That I should holy be,
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And into thy protection take The prisoner of thy love: In every trying hour Stand by my feeble soul;
And screen me from my nature's power,
Till thou hast made me whole.
Should let my sin this moment go,
This moment turn to thee:
O might I now embrace Thy all- sufficient power;
And never more to sin give place,
And never grieve thee more!
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JEST, let thy pitying eye Call back a wandering sheep! False to thee, like Peter, I Would fain, like Peter, weep: Let me be by grace restored, On me be all long- suffering shown; Turn, and look upon me, Lord, And break my heart of stone.
2 Saviour, Prince, enthroned above, Repentance to impart,
Give me, through thy dying love, The humble, contrite heart: Give what I have long implored, A portion of thy grief unknown; Turn, and look upon me, Lord, And break my heart of stone.
3 See me, Saviour, from above, Nor suffer me to die; Life, and happiness, and love, Drop from thy gracious eye: Speak the reconciling word, And let thy mercy melt me down; Turn, and look upon me, Lord, And break my heart of stone.
4 Look, as when thine eye pursued The first apostate man, Saw him weltering in his blood, And bade him rise again; Speak my paradise restored, Redeem me by thy grace alone; Turn, and look upon me, Lord, And break my heart of stone. 5 Look, as when thy pity saw
Thine own in a strange land, Forced to obey the tyrant's law, And feel his heavy hand: Speak the soul- redeeming word, And out of Egypt call thy son; Turn, and look upon me, Lord, And break my heart of stone.
6 Look, as when thy grace beheld The harlot in distress,
Dried her tears, her pardon sealed, And bade her go in peace: Vile, like her, and self- abhorred,
I at thy feet for mercy groan; Turn, and look upon me, Lord, And break my heart of stone.
7 Look, as when thy languid eye Was closed, that we might live; " Father,"( at the point to die
My Saviour gasped)" forgive!" Surely, with that dying word, He turns, and looks, and cries,"" Tis O my bleeding, loving Lord,
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Thou break'st my heart of
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Isaiah Ixi. 1-3.
THE Spirit of the Lord our God,
( Spirit of power, and health, and love) The Father hath on Christ bestowed, And sent him from his throne above;
2 Prophet, and Priest, and King of peace. Anointed to declare his will,
To minister his pardoning grace, And every sin- sick soul to heal.