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“There is a God,” all nature cries,
All knowledge proves “there is a God:”
“There is no God,” the fool replies,
Whose heart is duller than the clod.
The grateful clod, refreshed with rains,
Pours flowers along its maker’s path;
But the fool’s heart a fool’s remains,
untouch’d by love, unmoved by wrath.
And yet the wretch himself deceives;
While fiends believe, and trembling fly,
He trembles though he disbelieves;
And conscience gives his life the lie.
Can guilt, can madness further go?
Yes, his who God in works denies;
Whose creed saith “Yes,” who life says “No:”
Am I more holy, just, and wise?
My soul, sink down in shame and grief;
So fair without, so foul within;
Thy faith is specious unbelief,
Thy righteousness, self-righteous sin.
O God! Thou art, thou surely art,
And those who truly seek thee find;
Put thou thy laws into my heart,
In mercy write them on my mind.
Light in thy light I long to see,
Thy glory in thy goodness trace;
Ah! Then reveal thy Son in me,
Through faith may I be saved by grace.
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LYRICS
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Meter:
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8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
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MUSIC
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HERR JESU CHRIST DICH ZU UNS
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8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
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LIST OF MUSIC SOURCES
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