Text:My Soul, inspired with sacred Love

207. My Soul, inspired with sacred Love

1 My Soul, inspir'd with sacred Love,
2 God's holy Name for ever bless;
Of all his Favours mindful prove,
And still thy grateful Thanks express.
3,4 'Tis he that all thy Sins forgives,
And after Sickness makes thee sound:
From Danger He thy Life retrieves,
By him with Grace and Mercy crown'd.

5,6 He with good Things my Mouth supplies,
My Vigor, Eagle-like, renew:
He, when the guiltless Suff'rer cries,
His Foe with just Revenge pursues.
7 God made of old his righteous Ways
To Moses and our Fathers known;
His Works to his eternal Praise,
Were to the Sons of Jacob shown.

8 The Lord abounds with tender Love
And unexampled Acts of Grace:
His waken'd Wrath doth slowly move,
His willing Mercy flows apace.
9 God will not always harshly chide,
But with his Anger quickly part;
And loves his Punishment to guide
More by his Love than our Desert.

11 As high as Heav'n its Arch extends
Above this little Spot of Clay;
so much his boundless Love transcends
The small Respects that we can pay.
12,13 As far as 'tis from East to West,
So far has he our Sins remov'd;
Who with a Father's tender Breast,
Has such as fear him always lov'd.

14,15 For God, who all our Frame surveys,
Considers that we are but Clay:
How fresh soe'er we seem, our days
Like Grass or Flow'rs must fade away:
16,17 Whilst they are nipt with sudden Blasts,
Nor can we find their former Place;
God's faithful Mercy ever lasts,
To those that fear him, and their Race.

18 This shall attend on such as still
Proceed in his appointed Way;
And who not only know his Will,
But to it just Obedience pay.
19,20 The Lord, the Universal King,
In Heav'n has fix'd his lofty Throne:
To him, ye Angels, Praises sing,
In whose great Strength his Pow'r is shown.

Ye that his just Commands obey,
And hear and do his sacred Will:
21 Ye Hosts of his this Tribute pay,
Who still what he ordains fulfil.
22 Let ev'ry Creature jointly bless
The mighty Lord: And thou, my Heart,
With grateful Joy thy Thanks express,
And in this Consort bear thy Part.

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First Line: My Soul, inspired with sacred Love
Language: English
Publication Date: 1754
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