5 Tis often thus in soul concerns
We gospel sluggards see ;
Who, if a wish would serve their turns,
Might true believers be.
6 But when the preacher bids them watch,
And seek and strive and pray,
At every poor excuse they catch
A lion in the way.
7 To use the means of grace how loath !
We call them still in vain ;
They yield to their beloved sloth,
And fold their arms again.
8 Dear Saviour, let thy pow r appear,
The outward call to aid.
These drowsy souls can only hear
The voice that wakes the dead.
79.
Not in Word, but in Power.
1 How soon the Saviour s gracious call
Disarm d the rage of bloody Saul.
Jesus, the knowledge of thy name
Changes the lion to a lamb.
2 Zaccheus, when he knew the Lord,
What he had gain d by wrong restored;
And of the wealth he prized before,
He gave the half to feed the poor.
3 The woman who so vile had been,
When brought to weep o er pardon d sin,
Was from her evil ways estranged,
And show d that grace her heart had changed.
4 And can we think the power of grace
Is lost by change of time and place ?
Then it was mighty, all allow,
And is it but a notion now ?
5 Can they whom pride and passion sway,
Who mammon and the world obey,
