Think not, O soul in bondage

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Think not, O soul in bondage

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [O you who in bondage are living]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Oh, you who in bondage are living,
Yet longing from chains to be free,
This promise the Savior is giving:
“My grace is sufficient for thee.”

Refrain:
My grace is sufficient for thee,
My grace is sufficient for thee,
“Thy strength is made perfect in weakness”
I know that was promised of me.

2 The tempter is trying to hold you
Away from the lover of men;
He knows that if Christ should enfold you
Sin never could charm you again. [Refrain]

3 Fear not that when trials o’ertook you,
Unfaithful and weak you would prove,
For tho’ ev’ry other forsook you,
The Savior would whisper His love. [Refrain]

4 Let fear from your spirit be driven,
His word Christ is able to keep;
The heart that to Jesus is given
No storm from his bosom can sweet. [Refrain]

5 Yield now to your soul’s constant craving,
Be freed from your fetters today;
Still Jesus is seeking and saving;—
Step over the line, while you may. [Refrain]

Source: Calvary's Praises #151

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Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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