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SELF-EXAMINATION.
“Try me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart: prove me, and examine my thoughts.
“Look well, if there be any way of wickedness in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”—
Psalm cxxxix, 23—24.
Thou Lord of mercy and of might!
My humbled heart behold;
And give Thy Spirit's living light,
To search its inmost fold.
My humbled heart behold;
And give Thy Spirit's living light,
To search its inmost fold.
Against that heart's presumptuous sins
I fly to Faith and Prayer.
But where the Tempter's art begins,
O, save me, save me, there!
I fly to Faith and Prayer.
But where the Tempter's art begins,
O, save me, save me, there!
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Teach me to shun the first dark thought,
The wandering of the Will;
Oh! keep the soul Thy blood has bought,
And let me serve Thee still.
The wandering of the Will;
Oh! keep the soul Thy blood has bought,
And let me serve Thee still.
When dreams of folly cloud my mind,
And prompt to sins unknown,
The dream dissolve, the chain unbind,
And make me all Thine own.
And prompt to sins unknown,
The dream dissolve, the chain unbind,
And make me all Thine own.
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