147 7s J. Berridge
Christ a Protector of the Wretched. 1 Sam. 22. 2
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All in debt or in distress,
 
Discontented more or less,
 
All who would protection have,
 
Post away to David’s cave.
2
All who find their sinful debt
 
Deep and deeper growing yet;
 
All who have been Satan’s tool –
 
Much his madman or his fool;
3
All who discontented are,
 
Full of guilt and full of fear;
 
Every soul who would not die,
 
Unto Jesus’ cave must fly.
4
[Jesus all your debts will pay;
 
Chase your legal duns away;
 
Every foe he will subdue –
 
World, and flesh, and devil too.]
5
Haste, and seek the Saviour’s face;
 
Rise, and bless him for his grace;
 
To his scornèd cave repair;
 
He will wash and feast you there.