Hymn 2:98 [My Heart, How Dreadful Hard It Is!]

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Title:     Hymn 2:98 [My Heart, How Dreadful Hard It Is!]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

Hardness of heart complained of.

My heart, how dreadful hard it is!
How heavy here it lies,
Heavy and cold within my breast
Just like a rock of ice!

Sin like a raging tyrant sits
Upon this flinty throne,
And every grace lies buried deep
Beneath this heart of stone.

How seldom do I rise to God,
Or taste the joys above!
This mountain presses down my faith,
And chills my flaming love.

When smiling mercy courts my soul
With all its heavenly charms,
This stubborn, this relentless thing
Would thrust it from my arms.

Against the thunders of thy word
Rebellious I have stood,
My heart it shakes not at the wrath
And terrors of a God.

Dear Saviour, steep this rock of mine
In thine own crimson sea:
None but a bath of blood divine
Can melt the flint away.

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 2:98 [My Heart, How Dreadful Hard It Is!]

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