<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412686" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymn 163</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Complaint of desertion and temptations.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear Lord! behold our sore distress;<br>Our sins attempt to reign;<br>Stretch out thine arm of conquering grace,<br>And let thy foes be slain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[The lion with his dreadful roar<br>Affrights thy feeble sheep:<br>Reveal the glory of thy power,<br>And chain him to the deep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Must we indulge a long despair?<br>Shall our petitions die?<br>Our mourning's never reach thine ear,<br>Nor tears affect thine eye?]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If thou despise a mortal groan,<br>Yet hear a Savior's blood;<br>An Advocate so near the throne<br>Pleads and prevails with God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He brought the Spirit's powerful sword<br>To slay our deadly foes;<br>Our sins shall die beneath thy word,<br>And hell in vain oppose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How boundless is our Father's grace,<br>In height, and depth, and length!<br>He makes his Son our righteousness,<br>His Spirit is our strength.</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=412686" data-title="Hymn 163 de Isaac Watts" data-description="Complaint of desertion and temptations. Dear Lord! behold our sore distress; Our sins attempt to reign; Stretch out thine arm of conquering grace, And let thy foes be slain. [The lion with his dreadful roar Affrights thy feeble sheep: Reveal the..."></div> </div> </div>

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