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Rockingham [2]

Southern Harmony no. 300b

First Line:	Come, happy souls, approach your God
Composer:	Chapin
Meter:	C.M.
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1. Come, happy souls, approach your God
   With new melodious songs;
   Come, tender to Almighty grace
   The tributes of your tongues.

2. So strange, so boundless was the love
   That pitied dying men,
   The Father sent his equal Son
   To give him life again.

3. Thy hands, dear Jesus, were not armed
   With a revenging rod:
   No hard commission to perform
   The vengeance of a God.

4. But all was mercy, all was mild,
   And wrath forsook the throne,
   When Christ on the kind errand came,
   And brought salvation down.

5. Here, sinners, you may heal your wounds,
   And wipe your sorrows dry;
   Trust in the mighty Savior's name,
   And you shall never die.

6. See, dearest Lord, our willing souls
   Accept thine offered grace,
   We bless the great Redeemer's love,
   And give the Father praise.
   

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