"Return unto the Lord thy God." Deuteronomy 30:2
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Words: Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.
Music: "St. Petersburg," attributed to Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky, 1825
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Words: Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.
Music: "St. Petersburg," attributed to Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky, 1825
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Weary of wandering from my God,
And now made willing to return
I hear and bow me to the rod
For thee, not without hope, I mourn:
I have an Advocate above
A Friend before the throne of love.
O Jesus, full of truth and grace
More full of grace than I of sin
Yet once again I seek Thy face:
Open Thine arms and take me in
And freely my backslidings heal
And love the faithless sinner still.
Thou know'st the way to bring me back
My fallen spirit to restore
O for Thy truth and mercy's sake,
Forgive, and bid me sin no more:
The ruins of my soul repair
And make my heart a house of prayer.
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