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[Astonish'd at Thy patient love]
Astonish'd at Thy patient love
Which lets me load the earth so long,
O could I from my sins remove,
Cease an indulgent God to wrong;
Answer Thy merciful design,
And in my own salvation join.
Which lets me load the earth so long,
O could I from my sins remove,
Cease an indulgent God to wrong;
Answer Thy merciful design,
And in my own salvation join.
Thou bidd'st me put my sins away,
But Thou must give the' obedient power,
And therefore doth Thy Spirit stay,
Protract the acceptable hour;
Bestow the penitential space,
And lengthen out my evil days.
But Thou must give the' obedient power,
And therefore doth Thy Spirit stay,
Protract the acceptable hour;
Bestow the penitential space,
And lengthen out my evil days.
Year after year for this I live,
That by long-suffering love subdued,
I may at last through faith retrieve
The favour and the form of God;
May in true holiness arise,
Meet for a throne above the skies.
That by long-suffering love subdued,
I may at last through faith retrieve
The favour and the form of God;
May in true holiness arise,
Meet for a throne above the skies.
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