Jesus, Friend of sinners, hear
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Jesus, Friend of sinners, hearYet 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.
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For my selfishness and prideThou hast withdrawn thy grace;Left me long to wander wide,An outcast from thy face;But I now my sins confess,And mercy, mercy, I implore;Love me freely, seal my peace,And bid me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.
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Sin's deceitfulness hath spreadA 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 softening power;Love me freely, seal my peace,And bid me sin no more.