How Dear, O LORD

How dear, O LORD, Thy law I deem

Author: Richard Mant (1824)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 How dear, O LORD, Thy law I deem.
My daily thought's perpetual theme!
Thence ranked among the truly wise,
Superior to my foes I rise.

2 Nor all the learning of the sage,
Nor all the skill of practiced age,
Can vie with him, who studies still
To know Thy Word, to do Thy will.

3 Trained by Thy truth, my careful feet
From sin's delusive paths retreat;
Nor, taught by Thee, presume to stray
From Thy unerring course away.

4 How sweet my soul Thy Words esteems!
Sweet as my moth the honeyed streams
By them to just discernment led,
I hate the ways of vice to tread.

Source: Psalms of Grace #119:97-104a

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Author: Richard Mant

Mant, Richard D.D., son of the Rev. Richard Mant, Master of the Grammar School, Southampton, was born at Southampton, Feb. 12, 1776. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity, Oxford (B.A. 1797, M.A., 1799). At Oxford he won the Chancellor's prize for an English essay: was a Fellow of Oriel, and for some time College Tutor. On taking Holy Orders he was successively curate to his father, then of one or two other places, Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex, 1810; Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1813, Rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London. 1816, and East Horsley, 1818, Bishop of Killaloe, 1820, of Down and Connor, 1823, and of Dromore, 1842. He was also Bampton Lecturer in 1811. He died Nov. 2, 1848. His prose works were numerou… Go to person page >

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