The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.
Galatians 5:17
Words: Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs 1707–09, Book 2, number 122. Retirement and meditation.
Music: Guardian Irving J. Morgan, 1895 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Alternate Tune:
My God, permit me not to be
A stranger to myself and Thee;
Amidst a thousand thoughts I rove,
Forgetful of my highest love.
Why should my passions mix with earth,
And thus debase my heav’nly birth?
Why should I cleave to things below,
And let my God, my Savior, go?
Call me away from flesh and sense,
One sovereign word can draw me thence;
I would obey the voice divine,
And all inferior joys resign.
Be earth with all her scenes withdrawn,
Let noise and vanity begone;
In secret silence of the mind
My heav’n, and there my God, I find.