Lord, Thy word’s unerring light

Verse 1
Lord, thy Word’s Unerring Light,
As a Lamp my Path doth shew,
Guides my steady Feet aright;
Every One that Doth shall Know.
I have sworn to do thy Will;
Thro’ thine all-sufficient Grace
I shall all my Vows fulfil,
Shall fulfil all Righteousness.

Verse 2
Troubled, and distrest I am,
O be mindful of thy Word,
Grant the Promis’d Help I claim,
Speak me now to Life restor’d:
Thanks for all thy former Grace
From a willing Heart receive,
Still instruct me in thy Ways,
Bid me to thy Glory live.

Verse 3
Lord, my Life is in my Hand
Ever sinking into Hell,
Yet I in thy Precepts stand,
In the Paths of Duty dwell.
Me the World hath sought t’ insnare
Joining with my treacherous Heart,
Yet from Thee I did not err,
Would not from thy Statutes start.

Verse 4
I have thy Commandments took
For mine Heritage below,
From the Volume of the Book
All my Joys and Comforts flow;
In Obedience to thy Will,
I have long’d my Life to spend,
All thy Statutes to fulfil,
Serve and love Thee to the End.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Psalm 119. XIV.” This hymn was appears in the mid-to-late-1740s manuscript “MS Fish.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/566, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Introduced in Versions and Paraphrases of Select Psalms. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 224.
Publishing: Public Domain