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Text: | How Firm a Foundation, Ye Saints |
Author: | Richard Keen |
Tune: | MONTGOMERY |
Composer (attributed to): | Samuel Jarvis |
1 How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in His excellent word;
What more can He say than to you He hath said,
You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled?
2 Fear not, He is with thee, O be not dismayed;
For He is thy God, and will still give thee aid;
He'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand,
Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand.
3 When through the deep waters He calls thee to go,
The rivers of grief shall not thee overflow;
For He will be with thee in trouble to bless,
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.
4 When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie,
My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply;
The flame shall not hurt thee; His only design
Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.
5 The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose
He will not, He cannot, desert to its foes;
That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
He never will leave, He will never forsake.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord |
Title: | How Firm a Foundation, Ye Saints |
Author: | Richard Keen (c. 1787) |
Meter: | 11 11. 11 11 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1970 |
Topic: | Assurance and Trust |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MONTGOMERY |
Composer (attributed to): | Samuel Jarvis (1762) |
Meter: | 11 11. 11 11 |
Key: | C Major |