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| Text: | Jesus, Friend of sinners hear |
| Author: | Charles Wesley |
| Tune: | PENITENCE |
| Composer: | William H. Oakley |
1 Jesus, Friend of sinners, hear
Yet once again, I pray;
From my debt of sin set clear,
For I have naught to pay:
Speak, O speak the kind release,
A poor backsliding soul restore;
Love me freely, seal my peace,
And bid me sin no more.
2 For my selfishness and pride
Thou hast withdrawn thy grace;
Left me long to wander wide,
An outcast from thy face;
But I now my sins confess,
And mercy, mercy, I implore;
Love me freely, seal my peace,
And bid me sin no more.
3 Sin's deceitfulness hath spread
A hardness o'er my heart;
But if thou thy Spirit shed,
The stony shall depart:
Shed thy love, thy tenderness,
And let me feel thy softening power;
Love me freely, seal my peace,
And bid me sin no more.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Jesus, Friend of sinners hear |
| Author: | Charles Wesley |
| Publication Date: | 1886 |
| Topic: | The Christian: Unfaithfulness Lamented |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | PENITENCE |
| Composer: | William H. Oakley |
| Meter: | P. M. |
| Key: | B♭ Major |
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