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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Precious Bible what a treasure (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Precious Bible what a treasure

Topic: The Holy Scriptures

Writer: <no first name given> Newton

Composer:

Meter: PM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 22

Page Number: 015, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Precious Bible! what a treasure

Does the word of God afford!

All I want for life or pleasure,

Food and med'cine, shield and sword.

Let the world account me poor,

Having this I need no more.



Food to which the world's a stranger,

Here my hungry soul enjoys;

Of excess there is no danger,

Though it fills, it never cloys:

On a dying Christ I feed,

He is meat and drink indeed!



When my faith is faint and sickly,

Or when Satan wounds my mind,

Cordials to revive me quickly,

Healing med'cines here I find:

To the promises I flee,

Each afford a remedy.



In the hour of dark temptation,

Satan can not make me yield;

For the word of consolation

Is to me a mighty shield:

While the scripture truths are sure,

From his malice I'm secure.



Vain his threats to overcome me,

When I take the Spirit's sword;

Then, with ease, I drive him from me;

Satan trembles at the word:

'Tis a sword for conquest made,

Keen the edge, and strong the blade.



Shall I envy, then, the miser,

Doating on his golden store?

Sue I am, or should be, wiser;

I am rich, 'tis he is poor:

Jesus gives me in his word,

Food and med'cine, shield and sword.