The Need of Regeneration. (396) How helpless guilty nature lies, Unconscious of its load! The heart, unchanged, can never rise To happiness and God. 2 Can aught, beneath a power divine, The stubborn will subdue? 'Tis thine, almighty Spirit! thine, To form the heart anew. 3 'Tis thine, the passions to recall, And upward bid them rise; To make the scales of error fall, From reason's darkened eyes. 4 Oh! change these wretched hearts of ours, And give them life divine; Then shall our passions and our powers, Almighty Lord! be thine. Anne Steele, 1760.
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