Hymns for Those that Seek and Those that Have Redemption, 49

To—" 0 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.

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.