Worship — Law of God

O how I love thy holy law!

No. 208
Metre C. M.
Tune WINCHESTER.
Words Isaac Watts.
Music Thomas Este's Psalter.
Key G major
Singing key F major
Time 4/4
4 stanzas

Words

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O how I love thy holy law!'T is daily my delight;And thence my meditations drawDivine advice by night.

How doth thy word my heart engage!How well employ my tongue!And in my tiresome pilgrimageYields me a heavenly song.

No treasures so enrich the mind,Nor shall thy word be sold,For loads of silver well-refined,Nor heaps of choicest gold.

When all the powers of nature droop,Thy promises of graceAre pillars to support the hopeOf my abiding-place.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «WORSHIP—LAW OF GOD.»; hymn number «208» (large), tune name «WINCHESTER. C. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals), «THOMAS ESTE'S PSALTER.» at the right (capitals and small capitals — a source, not a person). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «O»; «'T is» is printed with a space between «'T» and «is» under one note. Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the reference line «114, 70, 446.» in italics (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 114, 70 or 446). «Isaac Watts.» in italics after stanza 4. The print sets a thin space before «!» and «;» («law !», «engage !», «tongue !»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly apostrophe is written straight («'T is»). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print.