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FreeWill Baptist Hymnal, 1846
1. Come, all ye people of my nation,
Attend a while and I'll relate
The wonders of my sad condition,
And how I left that wretched state.
2. I was born blind, to sin inclined,
As all descendants of Adam are,
Full sixteen years I was delighted
With social mirth, and void of fear.
3. I once, unthoughtful, went to meeting,
And heard a woman relating there
The travail of her sad condition,
And how she came the Lord to fear.
4. I saw, while she was thus relating,
The awful state that I was in,
I saw my soul was unconverted,
And always had been dead in sin.
5. I then began to think of praying,
To think it needful to seek the Lord ;
But still my soul was much distressed,
I felt not yet his healing word.
6. I then began to seek conversion,
And cried to Jesus my soul to save,
I left my way of light devotion,
His promised mercy I did crave.
7. My sins began, like pointed mountains,
To stand against me every day,
Their number I was oft recounting,
But all was vain my grief to lay.
8. One night, while thinking of the Savior,
And what he'd done for sinful man,
I thought my soul was out of favor,
Oh, how his mercy I longed to gain.
9. Mount Sinai's thunder rolled against me,
Not only for my outward sin,
But in my heart I saw the fountain
Which made my actions so unclean.
10. I felt how just the condemnation,
Though my spirit to hell should go:
When lo! the gospel consolation
Freed my soul from its load of woe.
11. I saw, by faith, the blessed Savior
Extended on the accursed tree:
Praise him, my soul, praise him for ever;
Adore the God who died for thee.
12. Come, Christians, join with me in praising
The blessed Lord, who died for me ;
I hope to praise him while I'm living,
And after death, eternally.
