LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: |
| | Bible Refs: | 2 Ti 4:18
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 1
|
| 27
|
| 1. [Death may dissolve my body now,
And bear my spirit home;
Why do my minutes move so slow,
Nor my salvation come?
2. With heav'nly weapons I have fought
The battles of the Lord;
Finished my course, and kept the faith,
And wait the sure reward.]
3. God has laid up in heav'n for me
A crown which cannot fade;
The righteous Judge at that great day
Shall place it on my head.
4. Nor hath the King of grace decreed
This prize for me alone;
But all that love and long to see
Th' appearance of his Son.
5. Jesus the Lord shall guard me safe
From every ill design;
And to his heav'nly kingdom keep
This feeble soul of mine.
6. God is my everlasting aid,
And hell shall rage in vain;
To him be highest glory paid
And endless praise--Amen.
|