A Selection of Hymns: from the best authors, intended to be an appendix to Dr. Watt's psalms and hymns. (1st Am. ed.) CCXCVII. Beset with snares on every hand

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CCXCVI

A Selection of Hymns‎#CCXCVII

CCXCVIII

Text:	Choosing the Better Part
Author:	Dr. Doddridge

1 Beset with snares on every hand,
In life’s uncertain path I stand:
Savior divine, diffuse thy light,
To guide my doubtful footsteps right.

2 Engage this roving treacherous heart,
To fix on Mary's better part;
To scorn the trifles of a day,
For joys, that none can take away.

3 Then let the wildest storms arise;
Let tempests mingle earth and skies;
No fatal Shipwreck shall I fear,
But all my treasures with me bear.

4 If thou, my Jesus, still be nigh,
Cheerful I live, and joyful die;
Secure, when mortal comforts flee,
To find ten thousand worlds in thee.

Text Information
First Line:	Beset with snares on every hand
Title:	Choosing the Better Part
Author:	Dr. Doddridge
Meter:	L. M.
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1792
Scripture:	Luke 10:42
Topic:	The Christian; Christian: Choosing the good part; One Thing Needful
Notes:	Public Domain.