What a motley wretch am I!
Full of inconsistency!
Sure the plague is in my heart,
Else I could not act this part.
Let me come unto my Lord,
Self-condemnèd and abhorred;
Take the sinner's safe retreat,
Lie and blush at Jesus' feet.
If my heart is broken well,
God will surely with me dwell;
Yet amazèd I would be,
How the Lord should dwell with me. --John Berridge
Full of inconsistency!
Sure the plague is in my heart,
Else I could not act this part.
Let me come unto my Lord,
Self-condemnèd and abhorred;
Take the sinner's safe retreat,
Lie and blush at Jesus' feet.
If my heart is broken well,
God will surely with me dwell;
Yet amazèd I would be,
How the Lord should dwell with me. --John Berridge
Gadsby's Hymns, #301, 7s
Inconstancy. Ps. 39. 5-7, 11; Job 25. 6
Inconstancy. Ps. 39. 5-7, 11; Job 25. 6