Vol 03 - Gracious God, Thy Children Keep

Gracious God, Thy Children Keep Jesus guide thy silly sheep;

Fix, O fix, our fickle souls;

Lord, direct us; we are fools.

Bid us in thy care confide;

Keep us near thy wounded side; From thee never let us stir, For thou know ’st how soon we err.

Lay us low before thy feet, Safe from pride and self-conceit; Be the language of our souls, Lord, direct us; we are fools.

Dang’rous doctrines from without, Lies and errors round about; From within a treach’rous heart, Prone to take the tempter’s part. By thy word we fain would steer, Fain thy Spirit’s dictates hear;

Save us from the rocks and shelves;

Save its chiefly from ourselves.

Never, never may we dare, What we are not, say we are;

Make us well our vileness know;

Keep us very, very low. May we all our wills resign, Quite absorb’d and lost in thine;

Let us walk by thy right rules;

Lord; direct us; we are fools,