Hymn 43
John Newton
8,6,8,6
Faith a new and comprehensive sense.
363 Sight, hearing, feeling, taste and smell, Are gifts we highly prize; But faith does singly each excel, And all the five comprise. | More piercing than the eagle’s flight It views the world unknown; Surveys the glorious realms of light, And Jesus on the throne. | It hears the mighty voice of God, And ponders what he saith His word and works, his gifts and rod, Have each a voice to faith. | It feels the touch of heavenly pow’r, Lk 8:46 And from that boundless source, Derives fresh vigor every hour, To run its daily course. | The truth and goodness of the Lord, Are suited to its taste Ps 119:103 Mean is the worldling’s pampered board, To faith’s perpetual feast. | It smells the dear Redeemer’s name Like ointment poured forth; SS 1:3 Faith only knows or can proclaim, Its favor or its worth. | Till saving faith possess the mind, In vain of sense we boast; We are but senseless, tasteless, blind, And deaf, and dead, and lost. | |