Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: What strange perplexities arise
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Hymn Number: 360
Page Number: 359, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhat strange perplexities arise?
What anxious fears and jealousies?
What crouds in doubtful light appear?
How few, alas, approv'd and clear!
And what am I? -- My soul awake,
And an impartial survey take;
Does no dark sign, no ground of fear,
In practice or in heart appear?
What image does my spirit bear?
Is Jesus form'd, and living there?
Say, do his lineaments divine
In thought, and word, and action shine?
Searcher of hearts, O search me still;
The secrets of my soul reveal;
My fears remove, let me appear
To God, and my own conscience clear.
Scatter the clouds which o'er my head
Thick gloom of dubious terror spread;
Lead me into celestial day,
And to myself, myself display.
May I at last that bless'd world arrive,
Where Christ thro' all my soul shall live,
And give full proof that he is there,
Without one gloomy doubt or fear!