Text Based On Romans Chapter 10 (KJV)
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

(Public Domain)
1952 BH - Page No. 804
The Church - Witness & Service
The Weekly Seventh Day Sabbath

Words: Isaac Watts: 1674-1748
Music: Henry Carey: 1687-1743
Surrey (88.88.88)
Lyrics/Verses/Key/v4/F/ Score

I LOVE THE VOLUMES OF THY WORD

1. I love the volumes of Thy Word;
What light and joy those leaves afford-
To souls benighted and distressed!
Thy precepts guide my doubtful way,
Thy fear forbids my feet to stray,
Thy promise leads my heart to rest.

2. From the discoveries of Thy law-
The perfect rules of life I draw;
These are my study and delight:
Not honey so invites the taste,
Nor gold that hath the furnace past-
Appears so pleasing to the sight.

3. Thy threat’nings wake my slumb’ring eyes,
And warn me where my danger lies;
But ’tis Thy blessèd Gospel, Lord,
That makes my guilty conscience clean,
Converts my soul, subdues my sin,
And gives a free, but large reward.

4. Who knows the errors of his thoughts?
My God, forgive my secret faults,
And from presumptuous sins restrain:
Accept my poor attempts of praise,
That I have read Thy book of grace,
And book of nature, not in vain.