Faith a New and Comprehensive Sense

I

  Sight, hearing, feeling, taste, and smell.
  Are gifts we highly prize;
But faith does singly each excel,
  And all the five comprise.

II

  More piercing than the eagle’s sight,
  It views the world unknown,
Surveys the glorious realms of light,
  And Jesus on the throne.

III

  It hears the mighty voice of God,
  And ponders what he saith.
His word and works, his gifts and rod,
  Have each a voice to faith.

IV

  It feels the touch of heav’nly power,
  And from that boundless source
Derives fresh vigour every hour
  To run its daily course.

V

  The truth and goodness of the Lord
  Are suited to its taste;
Mean is the worldling’s pamper’d board,
  To faith’s perpetual feast.

VI

  It smells the dear Redeemer’s name
  Like ointment poured forth;
Faith only knows, or can proclaim,
  Its savour or its worth.

VII

  Till saving faith possess the mind,
  In vain of sense we boast;
We are but senseless, tasteless, blind,
  And deaf and dead and lost.