Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1815
Compiler: John Thompson et al
Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace
First Line: My God I know I feel thee mine
Topic: Supplication
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 42
Page Number: 038, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsMy God, I know, I feel thee mine,
And will not quit my claim,
Till all I have is lost in thine,
And all renew'd I am.
I hold thee with a trembling hand,
But will not let thee go,
Till steadfastly by faith I stand,
And all thy goodness know.
Jesus, thy all-victorious love
Shed in my heart abroad;
Then shall my feet no longer rove,
Rooted and fix'd in God.
O that in me the sacred fire
Might now begin to glow!
Burn up the dross of base desire;
And make the mountains flow!
O that it now from heav'n might fall,
And all my sins consume;
Come, Holy Ghost, for thee I call,
Spirit of burning, come.
Refining fire, go through my heart,
Illuminate my soul;
Scatter thy life through ev'ry part,
And sanctify the whole.
Sorrow and sin shall then expire,
When enter'd into rest;
I only live my God t' admire,
My God for ever blest.
My steadfast soul from falling free,
Shall then no longer move;
But Christ be all the world to me,
And all my heart be love.