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HYMN XLIX.

[O all-loving Lamb]

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To—“O Jesus, my rest!

O all-loving Lamb,
A sinner I am,
And come as a sinner Thy mercy to claim.
With joy I embrace
The pardon and grace
Thy passion hath purchased for all the lost race.
For sinners like me
Thy mercy is free;
O who would not love such a Saviour as Thee?
Yet long I withstood,
And fled from my God,
But mercy pursued with the cry of Thy blood.
It challenged its stray,
And forced me to stay,
And wash'd all my sins in a moment away.
I felt it applied,
And joyfully cried,
Me, me Thou hast loved, and for me Thou hast died!
How mighty Thou art,
O love, to convert!
Love only could conquer so stubborn an heart.

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The love of God-man
Alone could constrain
So sturdy a rebel to love Thee again.
But sure at the last
Thy goodness I taste;
My soul on Thy goodness delighted I cast.
Thy goodness I praise,
I sing of Thy grace,
And joyfully live out my few happy days.
And when Thy dear love
From earth shall remove,
O then I shall sing like the angels above.
Yet there when I am,
My work is the same,
To ascribe my salvation to God and the Lamb.
Salvation to God,
Will I publish abroad,
And make heaven ring with the cry of Thy blood.
The Lamb that was slain,
Lo! He liveth again,
And I with my Jesus eternally reign.