<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymn 115</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Conviction of sin by the law.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rom. 7:8,9,14,24. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord, how secure my conscience was,<br>And felt no inward dread!<br>I was alive without the law,<br>And thought my sins were dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My hopes of heav'n were firm and bright,<br>But since the precept came<br>With a convincing power and light,<br>I find how vile I am.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[My guilt appeared but small before,<br>Till terribly I saw<br>How perfect, holy, just, and pure,<br>Was thine eternal law.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then felt my soul the heavy load,<br>My sins revived again<br>I had provoked a dreadful God,<br>And all my hopes were slain.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm like a helpless captive, sold<br>Under the power of sin<br>I cannot do the good I would,<br>Nor keep my conscience clean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My God, I cry with every breath<br>For some kind power to save,<br>To break the yoke of sin and death,<br>And thus redeem the slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isaac+Watts">Isaac Watts</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412633" data-title="Hymn 115 de Isaac Watts" data-description="Conviction of sin by the law. Rom. 7:8,9,14,24. Lord, how secure my conscience was, And felt no inward dread! I was alive without the law, And thought my sins were dead. My hopes of heav'n were firm and bright, But since the precept came With ..."></div> </div> </div>

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