{"id":2510,"date":"2015-09-13T00:05:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T04:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2015-09-13T00:05:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T04:05:04","slug":"approach-my-soul-the-mercy-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2015\/09\/13\/approach-my-soul-the-mercy-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Approach, My Soul, the Mercy Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Newton wrote this hymn in 1779. It still works\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1832908861\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1878083488\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregorywilbur.bandcamp.com\/album\/christ-is-our-cornerstone\">Christ Is Our Cornerstone by Katy Snow<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Approach, my soul, the mercy seat,<br \/>\nWhere Jesus answers prayer;<br \/>\nThere humbly fall before His feet,<br \/>\nFor none can perish there.<br \/>\nThy promise is my only plea,<br \/>\nWith this I venture nigh;<br \/>\nThou callest burdened souls to Thee,<br \/>\nAnd such, O Lord, am I.<br \/>\nAnd such, O Lord, am I.<\/p>\n<p>Bowed down beneath a load of sin,<br \/>\nBy Satan sorely pressed,<br \/>\nBy war without and fears within,<br \/>\nI come to Thee for rest.<br \/>\nBe Thou my Shield and hiding Place,<br \/>\nThat, sheltered by Thy side,<br \/>\nI may my fierce accuser face,<br \/>\nAnd tell him Thou hast died!<br \/>\nAnd tell him Thou hast died!<\/p>\n<p>O wondrous love! to bleed and die,<br \/>\nTo bear the cross and shame,<br \/>\nThat guilty sinners, such as I,<br \/>\nMight plead Thy gracious name.<br \/>\n\u201cPoor tempest tossed soul, be still;<br \/>\nMy promised grace receive;\u201d<br \/>\n\u2018Tis Jesus speaks!<br \/>\nI must, I will, I can, I do believe.<br \/>\nI can, I do believe.<\/p>\n<p>John Newton (1779)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Newton wrote this hymn in 1779. It still works\u00a0today. Christ Is Our Cornerstone by Katy Snow Approach, my soul, the mercy seat, Where Jesus answers prayer; There humbly fall before His feet, For none can perish there. Thy promise is my only plea, With this I venture nigh; Thou callest burdened souls to Thee,&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2015\/09\/13\/approach-my-soul-the-mercy-seat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymns","category-prayer-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-Eu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}