504. Persistent Love

1 How sweet and awful is the place,
With Christ within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores.

2 When all our hearts, and all our songs,
Join to admire the feast,
Each of us cries with thankful tongue,
"Lord, why was I a guest?"

3 "Why was I made to hear thy voice,
And enter while there's room,
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?"

4 'Twas the same love that spread the feast,
That sweetly drew us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.

5 Pity the nations, O our God!
Constrain the earth to come;
Send thy victorious word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.

Text Information
First Line: How sweet and awful is the place
Title: Persistent Love
Author: Isaac Watts
Language: English
Publication Date: 1890
Topic: The Church of God; Church: Ordinances of; Lord's Supper (1 more...)
Tune Information
Name: DUNDEE
Composer: G. Franc
Meter: C. M.
Key: E♭ Major



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