Fear of God before mine eyes

Verse 1
Fear of God before mine eyes
Lifts to him my praying heart;
But when I his fear despise,
From his footstool I depart,
When I lose my gracious care,
Only then I cease from prayer.

Verse 2
Father, to my heart appear
Pleas’d and smiling in thy Son;
Conscious of thy presence near,
Bow’d and humbled at thy throne,
Then I in thy sight shall stay,
Always fear, and always pray.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.”—[Job] xv. 4. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 251.
Publishing: Public Domain