Hymns · 1749

My soul, inspired with sacred love

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Hymnal / album Psalms (manuscript)

Publisher Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office

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Scripture connections

Expository

This passage is the main idea of the song

Psalm 146

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Psalm 99:1-2 Psalm 118:8-9 Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 Ecclesiastes 12:7 Isaiah 2:22 Isaiah 61:1 Jeremiah 17:7 Luke 4:18 I Corinthians 10:31 Colossians 1:16-17

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Genesis 3:19 Job 7:9-10 Psalm 68:5 Psalm 104:33 Psalm 145:14 Jeremiah 17:5 Ephesians 5:20 Colossians 3:17 Revelation 10:6 Revelation 21:4

Lyrics

Verse 1
My Soul inspir’d with sacred Love
The Lord thy GOD delight to praise, (Ps. 146:1)
His Gifts I will for Him improve,
To Him devote my happy Days, (Ps. 146:2)
To Him my Thanks and Praises give, (Eph. 5:20, Col. 3:17)
And only for his Glory live. (I Cor. 10:31)

Verse 2
Long as my GOD shall lend me breath, (Ps. 104:33)
My every Pulse shall beat for Him, (Ps. 146:2)
And when my Voice is lost in Death,
My Spirit shall resume the Theme,
The glorious Theme with Vigour new
Thro’ all Eternity pursue.

Verse 3
Trust in the Lord, ye Saints of His,
(All human Confidence is vain,) (Ps. 118:8-9, Jer. 17:5)
[Cease ye from man, for ever] cease (Ps. 146:3, Isa. 2:22)
[No help is found in faithless] Man,
The great Ones of the Earth look thro’
They cannot help themselves, or You. (Ps. 146:3)

Verse 4
Soon as the Breath of Man expires,
Again He to his Earth shall turn; (Ps. 146:4, Gen. 3:19, Ecc. 12:7)
Where then are all his vain Desires, (Ps. 146:4)
His Love and Hate, Esteem and Scorn, (Ecc. 9:5-6)
All, all at that last Gasp are o’re,
He falls to rise on Earth no more. (Ps. 146:4, Job 7:9-10)

Verse 5
He then is blest, and only He
Whose Hope is in the Lord his GOD, (Ps. 146:5, Jer. 17:7)
Who can to Him for Succour flee
That spread the Earth and Heaven abroad, (Ps. 146:6)
That still the Universe sustains, (Col. 1:16-17)
And Lord of his Creation reigns.

Verse 6
True to his Everlasting Word
He loves the Injur’d to redress (Ps. 146:7)
Poor helpless Souls the bounteous Lord
Relieves and fills with Plenteousness, (Ps. 146:7)
He sets the mournful Prisoners free, (Ps. 146:7, Isa. 61:1, Luke 4:18)
He bids the Blind their Saviour see. (Ps. 146:8)

Verse 7
Jehovah lifts the fallen up, (Ps. 146:8, Ps. 145:14)
Jehovah loves the righteous Race; (Ps. 146:8)
The Strangers and the Widows Hope, (Ps. 146:9)
The Father of the Fatherless, (Ps. 146:9, Ps. 68:5)
Sinners He views with angry Frown,
And turns their Councels upside down. (Ps. 146:9)

Verse 8
The Lord thy GOD, O Sion, reigns, (Ps. 146:10, Ps. 99:1-2)
Supreme in Mercy as in Power,
The Endless Theme of Heavenly Strains,
When Time and Death shall be no more, (Rev. 10:6, Rev. 21:4)
And all Eternity shall prove
Too short to utter All his Love.