A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) ‎#472

472. When langour and disease invade

1 When languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
’Tis sweet to look beyond our cage,
And long to fly away.

2 [Sweet to look inward, and attend
The whispers of his love;
Sweet to look upward to the place
Where Jesus pleads above.]

3 Sweet to look back, and see my name
In life’s fair book set down;
Sweet to look forward, and behold
Eternal joys my own.

4 Sweet to reflect how grace divine
My sins on Jesus laid;
Sweet to remember that his blood
My debt of suffering paid.

5 Sweet in his righteousness to stand,
Which saves from second death;
Sweet to experience, day by day,
His Spirit’s quickening breath.

6 [Sweet in his faithfulness to rest,
Whose love can never end;
Sweet on his covenant of grace
For all things to depend.]

7 Sweet in the confidence of faith
To trust his firm decrees;
Sweet to lie passive in his hands,
And know no will but his.

8 If such the sweetness of the streams,
What must the fountain be?
Where saints and angels draw their bliss
Immediately from thee!

Text Information

• First Line: When langour and disease invade
• Author: Toplady
• Meter: C. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1844
• Scripture:
  Psalm 104:34
• Topic: Death

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