'With solemn weekly state' (hymn) written by John Berridge

Based on Psalm 84: 2 - "My heart and my flesh crieth out"


With solemn weekly state

The worldling treads thy court,

Content to see thy gate,

And such as there resort;

But ah! what is the house to me,

Unless the Master I see?


N,ought will content my heart

But fellowship with him; 

And when from him I start,

My life is all a dream;

I seem to eat and take my fill,

But wake and feel my hungar still.


In vain I seek for rest

In all created good;

It leaves me yet unblest

And makes me pant for God;

And restless sure my heart must be

Till finding all its rest in thee.


For thee my soul would cry,

And send a labouring sigh,

And make a pensive moan;

And each for thee would daily pine,

And would be always only thine.

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