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14. THE WAY OF SALVATION.

If we with conscious guilt and humble shame

Our sins confess to God and deep deplore,

Resolv'd his holy laws to break no more,

For pardon trusting in his Son's great name,

Whose wondrous love brought him to bear our blame;

Then let a rush of troubles whelm us o'er,

As stormful billows dash upon the shore—

E'n dying, we in peace may each exclaim—

"My spirit into life doth die away,

And my poor body shall now rest in hope,

Awaiting with the sav'd the rising day,

When at the trumpet's blast each grave shall ope,

And in the likeness of Christ's body I

Shall share in glory endless in the sky!"