A Selection of Hymns ‎#CCL

CCL. Loves thou me?

1 'Tis a point I long to know,
Oft it causes anxious thought;
Do I love the Lord, or no?
Am I his, or am I not?

2 If I love, why am I thus?
Why this dull and lifeless frame?
Hardly, sure, can they be worse,
Who have never heard his name.

3 [Could my heart so hard remain,
Prayer a task and burden prove;
Every trifle give me pain,
If I knew a savior's love?

4 When I turn my eyes within,
All is dark, and vain, and wild;
Fill'd with unbelief and sin,
Can I deem myself a child?]

5 If I pray, or hear, or read,
Sin is mix'd with all I do;
You who love the Lord indeed,
Tell me is it thus with you?

6 Yet I mourn my stubborn will,
Find my sin a grief and thrall;
Should I grieve at what I feel,
If I did not love at all?

7 [Could I joy his saints to meet,
Choose the ways I once abhor'd;
Find, at times, the promise sweet
If I did not love the Lord?]

8 Lord, decide the doubtful case!
Thou, who art the people's sun;
Since upon thy work of grace,
If it be indeed begun.

9 Let me love thee more and more,
If I love at all, I pray;
If I have not lov'd before,
Help me to begin to-day.

Text Information

• First Line: 'Tis a point I long to know
• Title: Loves thou me?
• Author: Newton
• Meter: Sevens
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1792
• Scripture:
  John 21:16
• Topic: The Graces of the Holy Spirit: Love of Christ; Complaint: Of hardness of heart; Hard heart lamented; Love: Loves thou me; Love: Desiring to Love Christ

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