Laudes Domini ‎#527

527. Persistent Love

1 How sweet and awful is the place,
With Christ within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores.

2 When all our hearts, and all our songs,
Join to admire the feast,
Each of us cries with thankful tongue,--
"Lord, why was I a guest?"

3 "Why was I made to hear thy voice,
And enter while there's room,
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?"

4 'Twas the same love that spread the feast,
That sweetly drew us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.

5 Pity the nations, O our God!
Constrain the earth to come;
Send thy victorious word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.

Text Information

• First Line: How sweet and awful is the place
• Title: Persistent Love
• Author: Isaac Watts
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1888
• Scripture:
  Isaiah 65:1
  ;
  Hosea 11:8
• Topic: Church: Ordinances of; Communion of Saints: At Lord's Table

Tune Information

• Name: DUNDEE
• Composer: G. Franc
• Meter: C. M.
• Key: E♭ Major