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Backsliding Israel, bear the voice Of thy forgiving God; Nor force such goodness to exert The terrors of the rod. Thus saith the Lord, “My mercy flows, An unexhausted stream; And after all its millions saved, Its sway is still supreme.” Own but the follies thou hast done, And mourn thy sins in dust, And soon thy trembling heart shall learn To hope, and love, and trust.
Backsliding Israel, bear the voice Of thy forgiving God; Nor force such goodness to exert The terrors of the rod. Thus saith the Lord, “My mercy flows, An unexhausted stream; And after all its millions saved, Its sway is still supreme.” Own but the follies thou hast done, And mourn thy sins in dust, And soon thy trembling heart shall learn To hope, and love, and trust.
Approximate author period: c. 1726 AD · early modern
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- Philip Doddridge
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- Approximate author period: c. 1726 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 623 · printed citation: Doddridge · subject: TRUST
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