This is all the plea I need.
That is what he has to say of ‘Confidence’ from Cowper’s point of view. When he speaks for himself he adopts a different tone.
Oh! I tremble still to think
How secure I lived in sin;
Sporting on destruction’s brink,
Yet preserved from falling in.
Come, my fellow-sinners, try,
Jesu’s heart is full of love!
Oh that you, as well as I,
May His wondrous mercy prove.