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| 1 |
JESUS my All, to Heav'n is gone; He that I plac'd my Hopes upon; His Track I see--and I'll pursue The narrow Way, 'till Him I view. |
Jerusalem 53, Stanza 1 Save, Mighty Lord 70b (Lines 1 & 2), Stanza 1 Done With the World 88t (Lines 1 & 2), Stanza 1 |
Jerusalem 53, Stanza 1 Done With the World 88t (Lines 1 & 2), Stanza 1 |
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| 2 |
The Way the Holy Prophets went, The Road that leads from Banishment, The King's High-Way of Holiness I'll go; for all the Paths are Peace. |
Jerusalem 53, Stanza 2 Save, Mighty Lord 70b, Stanzas 2 & 3 |
Jerusalem 53, Stanza 2 |
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| 3 |
No Stranger may proceed therein, No Lover of the World, and Sin; No Lion. no devouring Care, No ravenous Tyger shall be there. |
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| 4 |
No: Nothing may go up thereon But traveling Souls, and I am one: Wayfaring Men to Canaan bound, Shall only in the Way be found. |
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| 5 |
Nor Fools, by carnal Men esteem'd Shall err therein; but they redeem'd In JESU's Blood, shall flew their Right To travel there, 'till Heav'n's in Sight. |
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| 6 |
This is the Way I long have sought, And mourned, because I found it not; My Grief, my Burden, long have been, Because I cou'd not cease from Sin. |
Jerusalem 53, Stanza 3 |
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| 7 |
The more I strove against its Pow'r, I sinn'd and stumbled but the more; 'Till late I heard my SAVIOUR say, Come hither, Soul, for I'm the Way. |
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| 8 |
Lo! Glad I come, and Thou, dear LAMB, Shalt take me to Thee, as I am: Nothing but Sin I Thee can give, Yet help me, and thy Praise I'll live. |
Jerusalem 53, Stanza 5 |
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| 9 |
I'll tell to all poor Sinners round, What a dear SAVIOUR I have found; I'll point to thy redeeming Blood, And say, Behold the Way to GOD! |
Jerusalem 53, Stanza 4 |
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