202. Common Metre. WATTS. Delight in scripture. HOW I love thy holy law! 2 How doth thy word my heart engage! 3 Am I a stranger, or at home, Not honey, dropping from the comb, 4 No treasures so enrich the mind; 5 When nature sinks, and spirits droop, Thy promises of grace Are pillars to support my hope; 1 203. Common Metre. Reason a divine gift. WHAT HAT heav'nly wisdom has bestow'd, O! let not man despise; Reason's a gift our praise demands; It lifts us to the skies. 2 How could we know or value truth 3 For reason and for conscience too, 1 204. Short Metre. SCOTT. The right and duty of private judgment. IMPO MPOSTURE shrinks from light, But sacred truths the test invite, 2 O may we still maintain A meek inquiring mind; Assur'd we shall not search in vain, 3 With understanding blest, Our faith on man we dare not rest, 4 LORD! give the light we need; 1 F 205. Long Metre. MERRICK. AR hence each superstition vain, 1 2 PART VIII. Christ and Christianity. 206. Short Metre. WATTS. The excellency of the gospel. BEHOLD! the morning sun Begins his glorious way; His beams through all the nations run, But where the gospel comes, It calls dead sinners from their tombs, And gives the blind their sight. 3 How perfect is thy word! 4 5 And all thy judgments just: For ever sure thy promise, LORD! My gracious GOD! how plain may I never read in vain, While with my heart and tongue 1 207. Proper Metre. WATTS. I LOVE the volumes of thy word: What light and joy those leaves afford 2 From the discov'ries of thy law, 3 Thy threat'nings wake my slumb❜ring eyes, And gives a free, but large reward. 4 Who knows the errors of his thoughts? And from presumptuous sins restrain; And book of nature not in vain. |