Penitential Pleadings.
Admit me now I pray;
Oppressed with guilt to thee I flee,
O turn me not away.
If thou receive me not I know
I must forever die;
For I have no where else to go,
To pour my feeble cry.
My crimes are great I do confess,
I plead no works of mine;
I am forever lost unless
I'm saved by grace divine.
Oh! wilt thou, canst thou, Lord, forgive
A sinner vile as me,
And cause my guilty soul to live
In perfect peace with thee?
I know if thou shouldst cast away
My guilty soul to hell,
Thou wouldst be just I still must say,
For I deserve it well
But if in mercy thou shouldst raise
My soul to dwell with thee,
Thy name alone shall have the praise,
For none belongs to me.
J. R. D.
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