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Wilt chase the fears of hell, And teach my pale and quivering lips Thy matchless grace to tell. "Calmly I'll lay my fainting head On thy dear faithful breast: Pleased to obey my Father's call To his eternal rest. "Into thy hands, my Saviour God, Do I my soul resign, In firm dependence on that truth That made salvation mine." THE INWARD WARFARE. "Strange and mysterious is my life; What opposites I feel within: A stable peace, a constant strife, The rule of grace, the power of sin. Too often I am captive led, Yet daily triumph in my Head. "I prize the privilege of prayer; But O, what backwardness to pray: Though on the Lord I cast my care, I feel its burden every day. I seek his will in all I do, Yet find my own is working too. "I call the promises mine own, And prize them more than mines of gold; Yet, though their sweetness I have known, They leave me unimpressed and cold. One hour upon the truth I feed; The next, I know not what I read. "I love the holy day of rest, When Jesus meets his gathered saints: Sweet day, of all the week the best, For its return my spirit pants; Yet often, through my unbelief, It proves a day of guilt and grief. "While on my Saviour I rely, I know my foes shall lose their aim; And therefore dare their power defy, Assured of conquest through his name; But soon my confidence is slain, And all my fears return again. "Thus different powers within me strive, And death and sin by turns prevail. I grieve, rejoice, decline, revive, And victory hangs in doubtful scale; But Jesus has his promise passed, That grace
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