Songs of Salvation

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Strahan & Company 56, Ludgate Hill, London, 1874 - 37 pages
 

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Page 25 - Hard driven along by dogs and men, and pricked with iron goads, And marked with iron brands to show they've oft been bought and sold; Brown ragged sheep, with fleeces torn, and faces wizened and old; And if you ask me which of these I think He loves the best— The lambs or sheep — I cannot say; He'll love me with the rest. For
Page 4 - AM not skilled to understand What God hath willed, what God hath planned; I only know at His right hand Stands One Who is my Saviour. I take God at His word and deed; " Christ died to save me," this I read, And in my heart I find a need Of Him to be my Saviour.
Page 15 - It was for me that Jesus died ! for me, and a world of men Just as sinful and just as slow to give back His love again...
Page 10 - ... hearts I healed, and the tears that I wiped away. I thought for myself and I wrought for myself — for myself, and none beside: Just as if Jesus had never lived, as if He had never died. But since my Lord has looked on me, and since He has bid me look Once on my heart and once on my life and once on His blessed Book, And once on the cross where He died for me, He has taught me that I must mend, If I'd have Him to be my Saviour, and keep Him to be my Friend. Since He's taken this long account...
Page 14 - I've got a word in my heart, that has made it glad, yet has made it sore : I've got a word like a fire in my heart that will not let me be, — "Jesus, the Son of God, who loved, and tvho gave Himself for me.
Page 27 - He didn't come to judge the world, He didn't come to blame, He didn't only come to seek; it was to save He came; And when we call Him Saviour, then we call Him by His name.
Page 7 - I'd keep, if I'd only one to choose, Is the gift of a broken and contrite heart, — and that He will not refuse. For what is my wish and what is my hope, when I've toiled and prayed and striven, All the days that I live upon earth ? It is this — to be forgiven. And what is my wish and what is my hope, but to end where I begin, With an eye that looks to my Saviour, and a heart that mourns for its sin ! Well, perhaps you think I...
Page 8 - I've nothing to do with other folks — it isn't for me to say What sort of men the Scribes might be, or the Pharisees in thoir day ; But we know that it wasn't for such as they that the Kingdom of Heaven was meant, And we're told we shall likewise perish unless we do repent. Why, what have I done...
Page 14 - I've got a word like a sword in my heart, that has pierced it through and through. When a message comes to a man from Heaven, he needn't ask if it's true ; There's none on earth could frame such a tale, for as strange as the tale may be, — Jesus, my Saviour, that Thou should'st die for love of a man like me ! Why, only think, now ! if it had been Peter, or blessed Paul, Or John, who used to lean on His breast, one couldn't have wondered at all, If He'd loved and He'd died for men like these, who...

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