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The Love of God Shed Abroad in the Heart

Isaac Watts (1709) • English

Primary Scripture: Psalm 34:8-9

Verse 1

Come, dearest Lord, descend and dwell by faith and love in every breast; then shall we know and taste and feel the joys that cannot be expressed.

Verse 2

Come, fill our hearts with inward strength, make our enlargèd souls possess and learn the height and breadth and length of thine immeasurable grace.

Verse 3

Now to the God whose power can do more than our thoughts or wishes know, be everlasting honours done by all the church, through Christ his Son.

Scripture References

Reference 1

  • psalms 34:8-9

Reference 2

  • psalms 63

Reference 3

  • romans 5:1-5

Reference 4

  • galatians 5:6

Reference 5

  • ephesians 1:23

Reference 6

  • ephesians 3

Reference 7

  • 1-peter 1:8