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Hymn 1:111 [Lord, We Confess Our Numerous Faults]

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Title:     Hymn 1:111 [Lord, We Confess Our Numerous Faults]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

Salvation by grace, Titus 3. 3-7.


[Lord, we confess our numerous faults,
How great our guilt has been!
Foolish and vain were all our thoughts,
And all our lives were sin.

But O, my soul, for ever praise,
For ever love his Name,
Who turns thy feet from dangerous ways
Of folly, sin, and shame.]

['Tis not by works of righteousness
Which our own hands have done;
But we are sav'd by sovereign grace
Abounding thro' his Son.]

'Tis from the mercy of our God
That all our hopes begin;
'Tis by the water and the blood
Our souls are wash'd from sin.

'Tis thro' the purchase of his death,
Who hung upon the tree,
The Spirit is sent down to breathe
On such dry bones as we.

Rais'd from the dead we live anew;
And justify'd by grace
We shall appear in glory too,
And see our Father's face.


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Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 1:111 [Lord, We Confess Our Numerous Faults]

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