Windsor (My God How Many Are My Fears)
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 15/06/2020

Day 91 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series

One of the hymns sung in pioneer Illinois during the time of Abraham Lincoln.
Here's the entire hymn.

My God, How Many Are My Fears
From the The Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts #Ps. 7 (1806)

My God, how many are my fears!
How fast my foes increase!
Their number—how it multiplies!
How fatal to my peace.

The lying tempter would persuade
There's no relief in heav'n;
And all my swelling sins appear
Too big to be forgiv'n.

But thou, my glory and my strength,
On all my foes shalt tread;
Shall silence all my threatening guilt,
And raise my drooping head.

I cried, and from his holy hill,
He bowed a listening ear:
I called my Father and my God,
And he subdued my fear.

He shed soft slumbers on mine eyes,
In spite of all my foes;
I woke, and wondered at the grace
That guarded my repose.

What though the hosts of death and hell
All armed against me stood
No terrors now shall shake my soul:
My refuge is my God.

Arise, O Lord, fulfil thy grace,
While I thy glory sing;
My God has broke the serpent's teeth,
And death has lost his sting.

Salvation to the Lord belongs;
His arm alone can save:
Blessings attend thy people here,
And reach beyond the grave.