Songs

Search me, O God, my actions try

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					C.M.

1	Search me, O God, my actions try,
	And let my life appear
	As seen by Thine all-searching eye:
	To mine my ways make clear.

2	Search all my sense, and know my heart,
	Who only canst make known;
	And let the deep, the hidden part
	To me fully shown.

3	Throw light into the darkened cells,
	Where passion reigns within;
	Quicken my conscience till it feels
	The loathsomeness of sin.

4	Search all my thoughts, the secret springs,
	The motives that control;
	The chambers where polluted things
	Hold empire o’er the soul.

5	Search, till Thy fiery glance hast cast
	Its holy light through all,
	And I by grace am brought at last
	Before Thy face to fall.

6	Thus prostrate I shall learn of Thee
	What now I feebly prove,
	That God alone in Christ can be
	Unutterable love!

						F.Bottome