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Hail, best Instructor! Thee, my Thought

Hail, best Instructor! Thee, my Thought

Author: James Merrick
Published in 1 hymnal


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1 Hail, best Instructor! Thee, my Thought
With full Desire, great God has sought:
O let me not, by Error's Sway
Impell'd from ty Direction stray.

2 Thy Precept, in my Breast conceal'd,
From Sin's Assault my Heart shall shield:
Blest is thy Name, Eternal Lord!
O, write within my Mind thy Word.

3 Thy Dictates still, my constant Joy,
My Soul's Attention shall employ;
Not aught shall from my Sight withdraw
Thy Path; or, from my Thought thy Law.

4 O let me lesson'd in thy Way,
The Wonders of thy Grace survey;
While on my Soul, that melts with Woe,
That Grace its Succours shall bestow.

Source: Psalms and Hymns, selected for the use of the Parish-Church of Boston #45

Author: James Merrick

Merrick, James , M.A., was born in 1720, and educated at Oxford, where he became a Fellow of Trinity College. He entered Holy Orders, but his health would not admit of parish work. He died at Reading, 1769. His publications include:— (1) Messiah, a Divine Essay. Humbly dedicated to the Reverend the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the Visitors of the Free School in Reading. By James Merrick, Ætat. 14, Senior Scholar of the School at their last Terminal Visitation, the 7th of October, 1734. Reading. (2) The Destruction of Troy. Translated from the Greek of Tryphiodorus into English Verse, with Notes, &c. 1742. (3) Poems on Sacred Subjects. Oxford . 1763. (4) The Psalms of David Translated or Paraphrased in English Verse… Go to person page >

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First Line: Hail, best Instructor! Thee, my Thought
Author: James Merrick
Language: English

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Psalms and Hymns, selected for the use of the Parish-Church of Boston #45

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