[Music]
Come all ye young people of every relation,
Come listen a while and to you I will tell,
How I was first called to seek for salvation,
Redemption through Jesus which sav'd me from hell.
I scarcely was sixteen when I was first called
To think of my soul and the state it was in;
I saw myself standing a distance from Jesus;
Between him and me was a mountain of sin.
The devil perceived that I was convicted,
And strove to persuade me that I was too young,
That I would get wearied before my days ended,
And wish that I had not so early begun;
Sometimes he persuaded me that Jesus was partial,
When he was a-setting of poor sinners free,
That I was forgotten and was reprobated,
And there was no mercy at all for poor me.
But glory to Jesus, his love's not confined,
To princes or men of a nobler degree;
His love it is boundless to all human creatures,
He died for poor sinners when nail'd to the tree.
For while I lay groaning in sad lamentation,
My soul overwhelmed in sorrow and grief,
He drew near in mercy, looked on me in pity,
He pardon'd my sins and he gave me relief.
The tune is practically the same as 'Grenadier and the Lady', JFSS,
viii., 194.
No. 13
WEDLOCK (A), SOC 188