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Hymn: I love the volume of thy word (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: I love the volume of thy word

Topic: The Holy Scriptures

Writer: <no first name given> Watts

Composer:

Meter: LPM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 8

Page Number: 009, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

I love the volume 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.



Thy threatenings wake my slumbering eyes,

And warn me where my danger lies;

But 't is thy blessed gospel, Lord,

That makes my guilty conscience clean,

Converts my soul, subdues my sin,

And gives a free, but large reward.



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.