Thy Goodness and Thy Truth

Thy goodness and Thy truth

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Published in 1 hymnal

Representative Text

1 Thy goodness and Thy truth,
O LORD, recall to mind;
And graciously continue still,
As You were ever, kind.

2 Let all my former sins,
Be blotted out by Thee,
And for a dying Savior's sake,
In mercy think of me.

3 The riches of His grace,
The righteous LORD displays,
In bringing wandering sinners home,
And teaching them His ways.

4 He never those deserts,
Who His direction seek,
But in His paths securely leads,
The humble and the meek.

Source: Psalms of Grace #25d

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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