{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/213/2130189.htm","path":"chr/ecf/213/2130189.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/213/2130189.htm","text":"p. 180 Hymn XII.\n1. I will call in my affliction, on the Power that subdues all;\u2014that is able to subdue, the Captor in his wrath,\u2014as it overcame Legion. R., Glory to His grace!\n2. The Evil One has repaid me my brethren, debts that he borrowed not of me:\u2014the good God likewise has repaid me, mercies that I lent Him not.\u2014Come and marvel ye at these two things!\n3. The good God has divided and given, my misdeeds to His grace,\u2014my offences to His justice; His mercy has blotted out my misdeeds\u2014His judgment has requited my offences.\n4. Sin was exceeding wroth, and abode in alarm,\u2014when she saw how grace, put restraint on freedom, that she might overcome transgressions.\n5. Glow Thou, O my Lord, and send down Thy love, break out and pour forth Thy wrath!\u2014Thy wrath to destroy, Thy love to rescue\u2014the captives from the captor!\n6. The days wherein the Evil One, decreed to cast me forth,\u2014as with a sling into perdition, in them the good God has bound up and kept\u2014my soul in the bundle of life.\n7. The men of speech who keep not silence, from praising continually,\u2014who have kept me in the midst of waves, and supported me that I fell not, let them give praise in my stead, O my Lord!\n8. For who has at any time sufficed, in presence of the grace,\u2014of the mercies which surrounded him, that I should suffice to praise\u2014the mercies that encompass me?","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIII: Selec...","type":"page"}