Hymns, Selected and Original ‎#683

683. When languor and disease invade

1 When languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
’Tis sweet to look beyond my pains,
And long to fly away.

2 Sweet to look inward, and attend
The whispers of his love;
Sweet to look upward to the place
Where Jesus pleads above.

3 Sweet to look back, and see my name
In life’s fair book set down;
Sweet to look forward and behold
Eternal joys my own.

4 Sweet to reflect how grace divine
My sins on Jesus laid;
Sweet to remember that his blood
My debt of suff'ring paid.

5 Sweet in his righteousness to stand,
Which saves from second death;
Sweet to experience, day by day,
His spirit's quick'ning breath.

6 If such the sweetness of the streams,
What must the fountain be,
Where saints and angels draw their bliss
Immediately from thee!

Text Information

• First Line: When languor and disease invade
• Meter: C. M.
• Publication Date: 1828
• Scripture:
  Psalm 54:34
• Topic: Affliction, or Meditation on God's Love; Sickness and Recovery
• Notes: Now Public Domain.

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