10. "TIS A POINT. 1 'Tis a point I long to know, Oft it causes anxious thought: Do I love the Lord, or no? Am I his or am I not? 2 If I love, why am I thus? Why this dull, this lifeless frame? Hardly, sure, can they be worse, Who have never heard his 3 Hasten, sinnner, to return; name. 3 Could my heart so hard remain, Prayer a task and burden . prove Every trifle give me pain If I knew a Savior's love? 4 When I turn mine eyes within, All is dark, and vain, and wild; Fill'd with unbelief and sinCan I deem myself a child? 5 If I pray, or hear, or read, Sin is mix'd with all I do; You who love the Lord indeed, Tell me is it thus with you? 6 Yet I mourn my stubborn will, Find my sin a grief and thrall; Should I grieve for what I feel, If I did not love at all! 7 Lord decide the doubtful case! Thou who art thy people's Stay not for the morrow's |