Text:Spirit of God, Who Dwells
Author:George Croly
Tune:MORECAMBE
Composer:Frederick Cook Atkinson

490. Spirit of God, Who Dwells

1 Spirit of God, who dwells within my heart,
wean it from sin, through all its pulses move.
Stoop to my weakness, mighty as you are,
and make me love you as I ought to love.

2 Did you not bid us love you, God and King,
love you with all our heart and strength and mind?
I see the cross - there teach my heart to cling.
O let me seek you and O let me find!

3 Teach me to feel that you are always nigh;
teach me the struggles of the soul to bear,
to check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
teach me the patience of unceasing prayer.

4 Teach me to love you as your angels love,
one holy passion filling all my frame:
the fullness of the heav'n-descended dove;
my heart an altar, and your love the flame.

Text Information
First Line: Spirit of God, who dwells within my heart
Title: Spirit of God, Who Dwells
Author: George Croly (1867, alt.)
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Language: English
Publication Date: 1995
Scripture: ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Topic: Spirit and Sustainer; Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit--Illumination (1 more...)
Tune Information
Name: MORECAMBE
Composer: Frederick Cook Atkinson (1870)
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Key: B♭ Major



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