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OLNEY HYMNS.


BOOK III.

ON THE RISE, PROGRESS, CHANGES, AND COMFORTS OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE.

I. SOLEMN ADDEESSES TO SINNERS.
II. SEEKING, PLEADING, AND HOPING.
III. CONFLICT.
IV. COMFORT.
V. DEDICATION AND SURRENDER.
VI. CAUTIONS.
VII. PRAISE.
VIII. SHORT HYMNS.

I. SOLEMN ADDRESSES TO SINNERS.

1.
Expostulation.


1 No words can declare,
No fancy can paint,
What rage and despair,
What hopeless complaint,
Fill Satan's dark dwelling,
The prison beneath,—
What weeping and yelling
And gnashing of teeth!

2 Yet sinners will choose
This dreadful abode!
Each madly pursues
The dangerous road;