I love the volume of Thy Word

I love the volume of Thy Word:

What light and joy these leaves afford

To souls benighted and distrest!

Thy precepts guide my doubtful way;

Thy fear forbids my feet to stray;

Thy promise leads my heart to rest.

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 passed

Appears so pleasing to the sight.

Thy threatenings wake my slumbering eyes,

And warn me where my danger lies;

But 'tis Thy blessed Gospel, Lord,

That makes my guilty conscience clean,

Converts my soul, subdues my sin,

And gives a free, but large reward.

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.