Not to Sinai’s dreadful blaze
Book 3, Hymn 94 · John Newton · Public-domain words
Not to Sinai’s dreadful blaze
Book 3, Hymn 94 · John Newton
The words
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Stanza 1. Not to Sinai’s dreadful blaze,But to Zion’s throne of grace,By a way marked out with blood,Sinners now approach to God.
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Stanza 2. Not to hear the fiery Law,But with humble joy to drawWater, by that well supplied,JESUS opened when he died.
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Stanza 3. LORD, there are no streams but thine,Can assuage a thirst like mine!’Tis a thirst thyself didst give,Let me therefore drink and live.
Olney Hymns (1779), Book 3, Hymn 94. John Newton. Public domain. CCEL transcription with modernized spelling. www.praylock.com/olney-hymns/3-94
About these words
John Newton lived from 1725 to 1807. These historical words are public domain.
This hymn belongs to the complete three-book collection first published in 1779.
The CCEL transcription modernizes spelling and some punctuation. Read this hymn at the source. Checked 23 October 2026.
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