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Isaac Watts - Hymn 107Isaac Watts - Hymn 107
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The everlasting absence of God intolerable. That awful day will surely come, Th` appointed hour makes haste, When I must stand before my Judge, And pass the solemn test. Thou lovely chief of all my joys, Thou sovereign of my heart! How could I bear to hear thy voice Pronounce the sound, "Depart!" [The thunder of that dismal word Would so torment my ear, `Twould tear my soul asunder, Lord, With most tormenting fear.] [What! to be banished from my life, And yet forbid to die! To linger in eternal pain, Yet death for ever fly!] O, wretched state of deep despair! To see my God remove, And fix my doleful station where I must not taste his love. Jesus, I throw my arms around, And hang upon thy breast; Without a gracious smile from thee My spirit cannot rest. O, tell me that my worthless name Is graven on thy hands; Show me some promise in thy book Where my salvation stands! [Give me one kind assuring word To sink my fears again, And cheerfully my soul shall wait Her threescore years and ten.]
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