The Cyber Hymnal 11690. The caution is not vain

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Text:	The Caution Is Not Vain
Author:	Charles Wesley
Tune:	OLIVET
Composer:	John Bacchus Dykes
Media:	MIDI file

1 The caution is not vain:
We may unfaithful prove,
And turn from God to sin again,
And fall from pardoning love;
Yet will we boldly press
T’ward our high calling’s prize,
And follow after holiness,
And to perfection rise.

2 Perfection is the good
Which wrestling saints receive,
Worthy of all to be pursued
Who in our Lord believe:
Perfection is the goal
Which terminates our race;
And comes to that, the spotless soul
Expires in his embrace.

Text Information
First Line:	The caution is not vain
Title:	The Caution Is Not Vain
Author:	Charles Wesley
Meter:	SMD
Language:	English
Source:	Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)
Copyright:	Public Domain