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BID ME SIN NO MORE by CHARLES WESLEY

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First Line: JESUS, FRIEND OF SINNERS, HEAR
Last Line: AND BID ME SIN NO MORE.
Subject(s): JESUS CHRIST;
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.

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Thou hast withdrawn Thy grace;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.

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 soft'ning power;
Love me freely, seal my peace,
And bid me sin no more.



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