The First and Second Blessing

The Sav­ior came one sum­mer day

And took my load of sin away;

From guil­ty fears He gave re­lease

And filled my soul with joy and peace.

O hal­le­lu­jah to the Lamb!

I’ll praise His name for what I am!

For on that bright and hap­py day

He washed my ma­ny sins away.

O glo­ry be to Je­sus’ name!

The Spir­it as the Wit­ness came;

He turned me from my sin­ful ways

And filled my heart with songs of praise.

I walked in peace from day to day

And sought my Sav­ior to obey;

But to my grief I found with­in

That stub­born thing

in­dwell­ing sin.

In vain I strove to watch and pray

And walk in tri­umph day by day;

The foe would take me by sur­prise

And sin­ful pas­sions would arise.

By grace di­vine

the path was plain

I saw the old man must be slain;

Upon the cross I groaned and died

And

like my Lord

was cru­ci­fied.

O hal­le­lu­jah to the Lamb!

Forever praise the great I AM!

He can the strong man safe­ly bind

And free us from the car­nal mind.

O joy di­vine! in that same hour

The Lord of glo­ry came in pow­er;

He freed me from in­dwell­ing sin

And now He sweet­ly dwells with­in.