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Hymn: Delay not delay not O sinner draw near (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1843

Compiler: A Campbell/ W Scott/ B W Stone/ J T Johnson

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: Delay not delay not O sinner draw near

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Meter: PM

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Hymn Number: Hymn 41 (part II)

Page Number: 041 (part II), click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

DELAY not, delay not, O sinner draw near,

The waters of life are now flowing for thee;

No price is demanded, the Saviour is here,

Redemption is purchased, salvation is free.



Delay not, delay not, why longer abuse

The love and compassion of Jesus our Lord,

A fountain is opened, how canst thou refuse,

To wash and be cleans'd in his pardoning blood?



Delay not, delay not, O sinner, to come,

For mercy still lingers, and calls thee today;

Her voice is not heard in the vale of the tomb;

Her message, unheeded, will soon pass away.



Delay not, delay not, the Spirit of Grace,

Long griev'd and resisted, entreats thee to come;

Beware, lest in darkness thou finish thy race,

And sink to the vale of eternity's gloom.



Delay not, delay not, the hour is at hand,

The earth shall dissolve and the heavens shall fade,

The dead, small and great, in the judgment shall stand,

What pow'r then, O sinner, shall lend thee its aid?