Worship — Law of God

With all my heart I've sought thy face

No. 209
Words Isaac Watts.
Singing key G major
4 stanzas

Sung to DENFIELD (hymn 175)

Words

With all my heart I've sought thy face,O let me never strayFrom thy commands, O God of grace!Nor tread the sinner's way.

Thy word I 've hid within my heartTo keep my conscience clean,And be an everlasting guardFrom every rising sin.

My ear with sacred reverence hearsThe threatenings of thy word;My flesh, with holy trembling, fearsThe judgments of the Lord.

My God! I long, I hope, I wait,For thy salvation still;While thy whole law is my delight,And I obey thy will.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «209» (large) with the reference line «175, 395, 698.» in italics beside it (sing to the tune of hymn 175, 395 or 698); the hymn stands in the left column of p. 71, below stanzas 2–4 of hymn 208, stanzas 1–4, «Isaac Watts.» in italics at the end. The first word «WITH» is set in capitals and small capitals. The print sets a thin space before «!» and «;» («grace !», «word ;», «God !», «still ;»); it is closed up here. «I 've» in stanza 2 is printed with a space before the apostrophe and is kept so (stanza 1 has a closed «I've»). The printer's curly apostrophes are written straight. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's. No meter is printed (the text is C. M., 8.6.8.6).