12.23
Here’s one that I heard John Macarthur quote after a sermon a few years ago. I have no idea what the music sounds like, but the lyrics should be a prayer in all of our hearts.
I Want a Principle Within
I want a principle within of watchful, godly fear;
A sensibility of sin, a pain to feel it near.
I want the first approach to feel of pride or wrong desire,
To catch the wandering of my will, and quench the kindling fire.
From Thee that I no more may stray, no more Thy goodness grieve,
Grant me the filial awe, I pray, the tender conscience give.
Quick as the apple of an eye, O God, my conscience make;
Awake my soul when sin is nigh, and keep it still awake.
Almighty God of truth and love, to me Thy power impart;
The mountain from my soul remove, the hardness from my heart.
O may the least omission pain my reawakened soul,
And drive me to that blood again, which makes the wounded whole.
–Charles Wesley(1749)
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