What a mercy that I have
been preserved so long!
(James Smith's autobiography, "Marvelous Mercy!" 1862)
LORD, YOU know my weaknesses
LORD, YOU know my weaknesses
and follies, and what sins I am
likely enough to commit--
unless YOU hold me fast.
"Hold up my steps in YOUR paths,
that my footsteps may not slip!"
Psalm 17:5
What a mercy that I have
been preserved so long!
How many thousands who have
been born since myself, have been
chopped down by the scythe of death--
and where are they? What is become
of them? Are not many of them suffering
YOUR eternal wrath, as the just desert
of their sins? No doubt but they are!
And what am I--
And what am I--
that I should be distinguished
from them!
What was there in me--
that a difference should be
made between us!
LORD, you know that there
was nothing. It is all of your
rich, free, and sovereign grace--
that there is the least difference
between me, and the vilest
wretch in Hell!
"But by the grace of GOD,
I am what I am!" 1 Corinthians 15:10
Psalm 119:117
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"Our Love to GOD".
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