How Shall the Young Secure Their Hearts (EN 1652)

EN 1652 How Shall the Young Secure Their Hearts

Ps.119.9

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How shall the young secure their hearts

And guard their lives from sin?

Thy Word the choicest rules imparts

To keep the conscience clean.

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When once it enters to the mind,

It spreads such light abroad,

The meanest souls instruction find,

And raise their thoughts to God.

3

’Tis, like the sun, a heav’nly light

That guides us all the day,

And through the dangers of the night

A lamp to lead our way.

4

The men that keep Thy law with care,

And meditate Thy Word,

Grow wiser than their teachers are,

And better know the Lord.

5

Thy precepts make me truly wise:

I hate the sinner’s road;

I hate my own vain thoughts that rise,

But love Thy law, my God.

6

The starry heav’ns Thy rule obey,

The earth maintains her place;

And these Thy servants, night and day,

Thy skill and power express.

7

But still Thy law and Gospel, Lord,

Have lessons more divine;

Not earth stands firmer than Thy Word,

Nor stars so nobly shine.

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Thy Word is everlasting truth;

How pure is every page!

That holy Book shall guide our youth

And well support our age.

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