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MERCY'S
FREE.
9,
6,
9,
8,
8,
8,
6.
"According
to
his
mercy,
he
saved
us,"-TITUS
3:
5.
L.
P.
B.
Key
of
F.
Major.
LEONARD
P.
BREEDLOVE,
1858.
1.
What's
this
that
in
my
soul
is
ris
-
ing?
Is
it
grace?
Is
it
grace?
This
work
that's
in
my
soul be -
Which
makes
me
keep
for
mer
-
cy
cry
- ing,
Is
it
grace?
Is
it
grace?
2. Great
God
of
love,
I
can
but
won
-
der,
Mer
-
cy's
free!
Mer
-
cy's
free!
Though
mer
-
cy's
free
Our
God is
Though
I've
no
price
at
all
to
ten
-
der,
Mer
-
cy's
free!
Mer
-
cy's
free!
3.
This
true
through
all
our
life
shall
cheer
us,
Mer
-
cy's
free!
Mer
-
cy's
free!
And
when
to
Jor
-
dan's
bank
we
And
through
the
vale
of
death
shall
bear
us,
Mer
-
cy's
free!
Mer
-
cy's
free!
gun,
it
makes
me
strive
all
sin
to
shun,
It
plants
my
soul
be
-
neath
the
sun,
mer
-
cy-s
free!
Mer
-
cy's
free!
just
And
if
a
soul
should
e'er
be
lost.
This
will
tor
-
ment
the
sin
-
ner
most
Mer
-
cy's
free!
Mer
-
cy,s
free!
come,
And
cross
the
rag
-
ing
bil
-
low's
roam,
We'll
sing,
when
safe
-
ly
lan
-
ded
home,
Mer
-
cy's
free!
Mer
-
cy's
free!
L.
P.
Breedlove
was
a
member
of
the
Southern
Musical
Convention,
and
was
one
of
the
committee
appointed
by
said
convention
to
add
an
appendix
to
the
Sac-
red
Harp,
and
assisted
in
1859
in
making
an
addition
to
it.
The
tune
and
words
of
this
song
are
credited
to
Mr.
Breedlove
in
that
book.
We
have
no
knolwedge
about
him
except
that
he
was
one
of
the
old-time
singers
fifty
or
sixty
years
ago.
Several
claims
are
made
about
him
being
dead,
but
nothing
definite
about
it,
Rev.
H.S.
Reese,
says
he
lived
near
Montgomery
Ala.
and
died
before
the
Civil
war.