Presenting: How Sweet and Aweful Is the Place · Isaac Watts
← → verses · fullscreen for projection · pick a dimmed backdrop for church
Choose a backdrop
Dim control appears on the right of the stage
Verse 1
Loading verses…
1. How sweet and awful is the place
with Christ within the doors,
while everlasting love displays
the choicest of her stores.
with Christ within the doors,
while everlasting love displays
the choicest of her stores.
2. While all our hearts and all our songs
join to admire the feast,
each of us cries, with thankful tongue,
"Lord, why was I a guest?
join to admire the feast,
each of us cries, with thankful tongue,
"Lord, why was I a guest?
3. "Why was I made to hear Thy voice,
and enter while there's room,
when thousands make a wretched choice
and rather starve than come?"
and enter while there's room,
when thousands make a wretched choice
and rather starve than come?"
4. 'Twas the same love that spread the feast
that sweetly drew us in;
else we had still refused to taste,
and perished in our sin.
that sweetly drew us in;
else we had still refused to taste,
and perished in our sin.
5. Pity the nations, O our God,
constrain the earth to come;
send Thy victorious Word abroad,
and bring the strangers home.
constrain the earth to come;
send Thy victorious Word abroad,
and bring the strangers home.
6. We long to see Thy churches full,
that all the chosen race
may, with one voice and heart and soul,
sing Thy redeeming grace.
that all the chosen race
may, with one voice and heart and soul,
sing Thy redeeming grace.