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Dark is he whose eye's not single

Author: J. Hart (1759)
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Dark is he whose eye’s not single;
Foolish man
never can
Hell with heaven mingle.

2 [Everything we do we sin in.
Chosen Jews
must not use
Woollen mixed with linen.]

3 God is holy in his nature;
And by that
needs must hate
Sin in every creature.

4 Infinite in truth and justice,
He surveys
all our ways;
Knows in whom our trust is.

5 Partial service is his loathing;
He requires
pure desires;
All the heart, or nothing.

6 [If we think of reconciling
Black with white,
dark with light,
’Tis but self-beguiling.]

7 Righteousness to full perfection
Must be brought,
lacking nought,
Fearless of rejection.

Source: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #800

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Author: J. Hart

Hart, Joseph, was born in London in 1712. His early life is involved in obscurity. His education was fairly good; and from the testimony of his brother-in-law, and successor in the ministry in Jewin Street, the Rev. John Hughes, "his civil calling was" for some time "that of a teacher of the learned languages." His early life, according to his own Experience which he prefaced to his Hymns, was a curious mixture of loose conduct, serious conviction of sin, and endeavours after amendment of life, and not until Whitsuntide, 1757, did he realize a permanent change, which was brought about mainly through his attending divine service at the Moravian Chapel, in Fetter Lane, London, and hearing a sermon on Rev. iii. 10. During the next two years ma… Go to person page >

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