Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Mistaken souls that dream of heaven
Topic: The Gospel/Faith and Repentance
Writer: <no first name given> Watts
Composer:
Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 354
Page Number: 220, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsMistaken souls, that dream of heaven,
And make their empty boast
Of inward joys, and sins forgiven,
While they are slaves to lust!
How vain are fancy's airy flights,
If faith be cold an dead!
None but a living power unites
To Christ, the living Head.
'T is faith that purifies the heart;
'T is faith that words by love;
That bids all sinful joys depart,
And lifts the thoughts above.
Faith must obey our Father's will,
As well as trust his grace;
A pard'ning God requires us still
To walk in all his ways.
This faith shall every fear control
By its celestial power.
With holy triumph fill the soul
In death's approaching hour.