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<h2>HOW SHALL THE YOUNG SECURE THEIR HEARTS</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“How shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to Thy Word.” Psalm 119:9</h3></p>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_a_watts_i.html" target="_blank">Isaac Watts</a>, <em>The Psalms of David</em>, 1719.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “St. Peter,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_r_e_reinagle_ar.html" target="_blank">Alexander Robert Reinagle</a>, 1836 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_t_stpeter.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>How shall the young secure their hearts<br>
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And guard their lives from sin?<br>
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Thy Word the choicest rules imparts<br>
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To keep the conscience clean.</p>
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<p>When once it enters to the mind,<br>
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It spreads such light abroad,<br>
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The meanest souls instruction find,<br>
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And raise their thoughts to God.</p>
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<p>’Tis, like the sun, a heav’nly light<br>
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That guides us all the day,<br>
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And through the dangers of the night<br>
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A lamp to lead our way.</p>
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<p>The men that keep Thy law with care,<br>
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And meditate Thy Word,<br>
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Grow wiser than their teachers are,<br>
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And better know the Lord.</p>
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<p>Thy precepts make me truly wise:<br>
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I hate the sinner’s road;<br>
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I hate my own vain thoughts that rise,<br>
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But love Thy law, my God.</p>
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<p>The starry heav’ns Thy rule obey,<br>
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The earth maintains her place;<br>
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And these Thy servants, night and day,<br>
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Thy skill and power express.</p>
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<p>But still Thy law and Gospel, Lord,<br>
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Have lessons more divine;<br>
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Not earth stands firmer than Thy Word,<br>
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Nor stars so nobly shine.</p>
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<p>Thy Word is everlasting truth;<br>
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How pure is every page!<br>
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That holy Book shall guide our youth<br>
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And well support our age.</p>
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