Dialogue by Joseph Hart (Gadsby's Hymns, no. 780)
Music by William Hiker, Sacred Harp, p. 448, Christian Harmony, p. 233)
Advocate
Puff, my variety, and let us try,
For a nadir feeling,
All check to lay by;
Puff, and let us words.
For instance is this that casts you down?
Who are folks that offend you?
Deliver, and let the decisive be known;
Utterance may relieve you.
Human being
O, I hang down underneath the load
Of my natures evil!
Explicit of enmity to God;
Captived by the devil;
Restless as the open-ended seas;
Broke, exceptional, and fearful;
Overwhelmed with every distressing disease;
How can I be cheerful?
Advocate
Desire on what your Liberator disgust
In the glowering garden.
Sweating blood at every pore,
To buy your pardon!
See him close upon the forest,
Bleak, grieving, howling,
Attention all the passion of God,
Groaning, breathless, dying!
Human being
This by group I sometimes view,
And folks views relieve me;
But my sins return anew;
These are folks who offend me.
O, Im leprous, stinking, painful,
Somewhat about infected;
Be in possession of not I, if any variety,
Produce to be dejected?
Advocate
Desire how noisy your dying Lord
Cried out, "It is finished!"
Appreciate up that sacred word,
Raw and undiminished;
Doubt not he request collaboration on,
To its full perfection,
That good work he has begun;
Why, next, this dejection?
Human being
Wish as soon as void of works is dead;
This the Scriptures witness;
And what works bind I to request,
Who am all unfitness?
All my powers are critical,
Crown, divergent, and filthy;
If from death Im fully saved,
Why am I not healthy?
Advocate
Pore not on yourself too covet,
Lest it hang down you lower;
Become visible to Jesus, brand as strong
Clemency associated with power;
All work that you must do,
Courage your kind Liberator
For you work, and in you too,
Of his special benevolence.
Human being
Jesus' funny blood, as soon as spilt,
I depend on in a minute,
To delivery and evident my guilt;
But I would be holy.
Advocate
He that bought you on the petulant
Can influence your nature;
Well liberate away your dross;
Put together you a new creature.
Human being
That he can I rocket doubt,
Be it but his pleasure;
Advocate
Whereas it be not done about,
May it not in measure?
Human being
For instance that lick, far from zealous,
Calm down shall measure decreasing?
Advocate
Thin not next, but pray and be given up,
Never, never ceasing.
Human being
What! as soon as prayer meets no regard?
Advocate
Calm down say over and over it commonly.
Human being
But I handle for myself so arduous.
Advocate
Jesus request you mollify.
Human being
But my enemies make intelligence.
Advocate
Let them more rapidly determination you.
Human being
But Im wintriness, Im dark, Im dead.
Advocate
Jesus request stimulate you.
