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BOOK III. Though cisterns be broken, And creatures all fail, The word he has spoken Will surely prevail.

3 His love in time past Forbids me to think He ll leave me at last In trouble to sink ; Each sweet Ebenezer I have in review Confirms his good pleasure To help me quite through.

4 Determined to save, He watchM o er my path, When, Satan s blind slave, I sported with death ; And can he have taught me To trust in his name, And thus far have brought me, To put me to shame ?

5 Why should I complain Of want or distress, Temptation or pain ? He told me no less : The heirs of salvation, I know from his word, Through much tribulation Must follow their Lord.

6 How bitter that cup, No heart can conceive, Which he drank quite up, That sinners might live ! His way was much rougher And darker than mine ; Did Jesus thus suffer, And shall I repine ?

7 Since all that I meet Shall work for my good, Rh