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 230 OUR HYMNS :

&quot; 4. In sins and trespasses

When more than dead I lay, Drew near my tomb the Prince of Peace

And rolled the stone away ; With me His spirit strove,

Almighty to retrieve, He saw me in a time of love

And said unto me, live.&quot;

And one of his later pieces, &quot; written in illness,&quot; begins

&quot;When languor and disease invade

This trembling house of clay, &quot;Tis sweet to look beyond the cage And long to fly away.&quot;

And after several verses descriptive of his sources of spiritual joy, he says, in verse 14

&quot; If such the sweetness of the stream

What must the fountain be, Where saints and angels draw their bliss Immediately from thee ?&quot;

&quot; Holy Ghost ! dispel our sadness.&quot; No. 439.

This is a short extract from Toplady s piece beginning with these words. It was taken from a piece, translated by J. C. Jacobi, in the &quot; Psalmodia Germanica,&quot; 1725

&quot; thou sweetest source of gladness.&quot;

Toplady altered it, and inserted it in the &quot; Gospel Magazine &quot; for 1776. The original is believed to be a piece by Paul Gerhard.

&quot; Bowed with a sense of sin, I faint.&quot; No. 526.

This is part of a piece of twenty-two verses, entitled &quot; The Prayer of King Manasses, paraphrased,&quot; and beginning

&quot; Author of all in earth or sky.&quot; &quot; Rock of ages, cleft for me.&quot; No. 549.

This hymn, so justly prized by the Christian Church, was in serted in the &quot; Gospel Magazine &quot; for March, 1776, with the title, &quot;A Living and Dying Prayer for the holiest Believer in the World.&quot;

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