Worship — Law of God
Lord, how secure my conscience was
- No. 204
- Metre C. M.
- Tune AVON.
- Words Isaac Watts.
- Music Hugh Wilson.
- Key A-flat major
- Singing key A♭ major
- Time 3/4
- 5 stanzas
Words
⤢ Full screenLord, how secure my conscience was,
And felt no inward dread!
I was alive without the law,
And thought my sins were dead.
My hopes of heaven were firm and bright:
But since the precept came
With a convincing power and light,
I find how vile I am.
My guilt appeared but small before,
Till terribly I saw
How perfect, holy, just, and pure,
Was thy eternal law.
Then felt my soul the heavy load,—
My sins revived again;
I had provoked a dreadful God,
And all my hopes were slain.
My God, I cry with every breath
For some kind power to save,
To break the yoke of sin and death,
And thus redeem the slave.
About this hymn
As printed As printed: running head «WORSHIP— LAW OF GOD.»; hymn number «204» (large), tune name «AVON. C. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «HUGH WILSON.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); no copyright line. Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «Lord»; under the staves «se - cure», «in - ward», «a - live» and «with - out» are hyphenated, while «conscience» is printed whole under two notes. Stanzas 2–5 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the reference line «183, 147, 187.» in italics (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 183, 147 or 187). «Isaac Watts.» in italics after stanza 5. The print sets a thin space before «:» and «;» («bright :», «again ;»); it is closed up here. Two ink dots of this exemplar sit between the lines of stanza 5 (under «sin», over «the»); they are not punctuation. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print.
- Source
- The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
- Where
- Worship — Law of God · No. 204 · printed page 70
- Checked
- score verified (fork reading; parent check pending) · 2026-09-30
