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I: How soon the Saviour's gracious call / Disarm'd the rage of bloody Saul.
Jesus, the knowledge of thy name / Changes the lion to a lamb.
II: Zaccheus, when he knew the Lord, / What he had gain'd by wrong restored; / And of the wealth he prized before, / He gave the half to feed the poor.
III: The woman who so vile had been, / When brought to weep o'er pardon'd sin, / Was from her evil ways estranged, / And show'd that grace her heart had changed.
IV: And can we think the power of grace / Is lost by change of time and place?
Then it was mighty, all allow, / And is it but a notion now?
V: Can they whom pride and passion sway, / Who mammon and the world obey, / In envy or contention live, / Presume that they indeed believe?
VI: True faith unites to Christ the root, / And they who no such fruit can show, / Still on the stock of nature grow.
VII: Lord, let thy word effectual prove / To work in us obedient love!
And may each one who hears it, dread / A name to live, and yet be dead.32