2916. I Love the Volumes of Thy Word

1. I love the volumes of Thy Word;
What light and joy those leaves afford
To souls benighted and distressed!
Thy precepts guide my doubtful way,
Thy fear forbids my feet to stray,
Thy promise leads my heart to rest.

2. From the discoveries of Thy law
The perfect rules of life I draw;
These are my study and delight:
Not honey so invites the taste,
Nor gold that hath the furnace past
Appears so pleasing to the sight.

3. Thy threat’nings wake my slumb’ring eyes,
And warn me where my danger lies;
But ’tis Thy blessèd Gospel, Lord,
That makes my guilty conscience clean,
Converts my soul, subdues my sin,
And gives a free, but large reward.

4. Who knows the errors of his thoughts?
My God, forgive my secret faults,
And from presumptuous sins restrain:
Accept my poor attempts of praise,
That I have read Thy book of grace,
And book of nature, not in vain.

Text Information
First Line: I love the volumes of Thy Word
Title: I Love the Volumes of Thy Word
Author: Isaac Watts (1719)
Meter: 88.88.88
Language: English
Source: The Psalms of David, 1719
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: OLD 113TH
Composer (attributed to): Matthäus Greiter (1525)
Meter: 88.88.88
Incipit: 11231 34543 21345
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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