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[When sinners, heedless, we behold]
“I have called thee.”
1 Samuel, xxviii. 15.
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When sinners, heedless, we behold,
To folly bound, to Satan sold,
Running the downward way;
Those, better taught, with prayer and praise,
Hosannahs to their Lord should raise,
That they, his voice obey.
2
We once the paths of folly trod,
But, looking to the Lamb of God,
Joy, peace, and pardon came:
We tremble at Jehovah's foe,
While gratitude to God we owe
That we are not the same!
3
An evil nature we possess;
The seeds of all unrighteousness
Reign, half subdued, within;
And that resistless might alone,
Which changed, at first, our hearts of stone,
Restrains the power of sin.
4
The Lord, from slumber bade us rise;
He truth presented to our eyes;
Endued us with his grace;
And he, who hath such wonders wrought,
At length, will give us, rapturous thought!
At his right hand, a place!