Hymn 2:101 [When In The Light Of Faith Divine]

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Title:     Hymn 2:101 [When In The Light Of Faith Divine]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

The world's three great temptations.

When in the light of faith divine
We look on things below,
Honour, and gold, and sensual joy,
How vain and dangerous too!

[Honour's a puff of noisy breath;
Yet men expose their blood,
And venture everlasting death
To gain that airy good.

Whilst others starve the nobler mind,
And feed on shining dust,
They rob the serpent of his food
T' indulge a sordid lust.]

The pleasures that allure our sense
Are dangerous snares to souls;
There's but a drop of flattering sweet,
And dash'd with bitter bowls.

God is mine all-sufficient good,
My portion and my choice;
In him my vast desires are fill'd,
And all my powers rejoice.

In vain the world accosts my ear,
And tempts my heart anew;
I cannot buy your bliss so dear,
Nor part with heaven for you.

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 2:101 [when In The Light Of Faith Divine]

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