I Will Trust and Not Be Afraid

Representative Text

1 While fear hints, "There's something God will deny,"
"No good thing" is faith's decisive reply;
Whate'er HE withholds is most wisely denied;
How full is the promise, "The Lord will provide."

2 Begone, unbelief, my Saviour is near,
And for my relief will shortly appear;
By faith let me wrestle, and he will perform;
With Christ in the vessel, I smile at the storm.

3 His love in time past forbids me to think
He’ll leave me at last in trouble to sink;
Each sweet Ebenezer I have in review
Confirms his good pleasure to help me quite through.

4 Why should I complain of want or distress,
Temptation or pain? He told me no less;
The heirs of salvation, I know from His Word,
Thru much tribulation must follow the Lord.

5 Tho' troubles assail, and dangers affright,
Tho' friends should all fail and foes all unite,
Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide,
The Scriptures assure us the Lord will provide.

Amen.

Source: Hymns of the Church #166

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Author: John Newton

John Newton (b. London, England, 1725; d. London, 1807) was born into a Christian home, but his godly mother died when he was seven, and he joined his father at sea when he was eleven. His licentious and tumultuous sailing life included a flogging for attempted desertion from the Royal Navy and captivity by a slave trader in West Africa. After his escape he himself became the captain of a slave ship. Several factors contributed to Newton's conversion: a near-drowning in 1748, the piety of his friend Mary Catlett, (whom he married in 1750), and his reading of Thomas à Kempis' Imitation of Christ. In 1754 he gave up the slave trade and, in association with William Wilberforce, eventually became an ardent abolitionist. After becoming a tide… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Begone, unbelief! My Savior is near
Title:	I Will Trust and Not Be Afraid
Author:	John Newton
Meter:	10.10.11.11
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

HANOVER (Croft)

William Croft (b. Nether Ettington, Warwickshire, England, 1678; d. Bath, Somerset, England, 1727) was a boy chorister in the Chapel Royal in London and then an organist at St. Anne's, Soho. Later he became organist, composer, and master of the children of the Chapel Royal, and eventually organist a…

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HOUGHTON (Gauntlett)

Henry John Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, England, 1805; d. Kensington, London, England, 1876) originally composed HOUGHTEN for the text "O Worship the King" (428). Sing the theme stanza (st. 1) in parts and the other stanzas in unison, or vice versa. When singing the entire psalm, sing stanz…

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