I cannot now for Mercy groan, O GOD of Love, pronounce my Doom, I. The BACKSLIDER. SUREL URELY in the LORD we have JESUS mighty is to fave The Sinner in Distress: JESU's Blood on which we stay, Cleanfes us from every Stain, Takes the Guilt of Sin away, 2. Why then, O my Saviour, why (If mine indeed Thou art) Am I thus ? a Sinner I, And ftill unclean of Heart? 3. Did I not believe and feel Through Faith my Sins forgiven? 4. What I the Servant am of Sin, While to its Yoke I bow: 5. Can Unholy Actions fuit If the Tree (the Heart) were Good, If Thou, my GOD, wert there. 6. Can the felf-fame Fountain yield Both bitter Streams and fweet? In a Soul by JESUS fill'd Can Satan find a Seat? No, my LORD, I am not clean, Am not (for I ftill Can fin) 7. See, I give up all at last, My boafted Gifts disclaim, Truft no more in Graces paft, But now condemn'd I am: Nothing do I bring to Thee, That I may Thy Mercy move, No one Spark remains in me Of Faith, or Hope, or Love. .... 8. If but one Good Thought could buy Full of Guilt and Mifery, 9. Let me never, never more 10. O that I could truly wait came, "The Backflider to restore ; "Sinners I do not condemn ; 66 Depart, and Sin no more." OH ANOTHER. H! the dire Effects of Sin! All that I have felt within, Till I believe in Thee. 2. O the Load my Spirit bears, Did I ever Thee behold? 3. Did I not my Soul deceive With groundless Hopes of Heaven? And was I once forgiven ? 4. Hear me ftill Myfelf bemoan, O that my Heart were broke! 5. Me Thou woud'ft not disregard, But my Heart, alas! is hard, And void of Love, and Fear; I. "A' ANOTHER. H! my dear, loving LORD, Ten 10 Ten Thousand Wants have I, 2. Yet now, Thou know'ft, I fear, So often have I, LORD, drawn near, And mock'd Thee to Thy Face: With all Pollutions stain'd, Thy hallow'd Courts I trod, Thy Name and Temple I prophan'd And dar'd to call Thee GoD.' 3. Nigh with my Lips I drew, Far from the Living GOD, 4. My Nature I obey'd, My own Defires pursu❜d, And ftill a Den of Thieves I made The hallow'd Houfe of GOD; The Worship He approves To Him I would not pay; My Selfifh Ends, and Creature-loves Had ftole my Heart away. 5. My Sin and Nakedness I ftudied to disguise, Spoke to my Soul a flattering Peace, And put out mine own Eyes; |