The church of God below

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The church of God below

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 The Church of God below,
Is like His church above,
Safe shielded from her every foe,
By heavenly power and love.

2 On high and holy ground,
Her deep foundations rest;
And God within her courts is found,
An omnipresent Guest.

3 God loves her sacred gates,
Her solemn praise and prayer;
And none that humbly on Him waits,
Shall find Him there.

4 The Church of God below,
Shall yet more honored be;
The nations to her side shall flow,
The world her glories see.

5 O bless'd and favored men,
That in her courts are born;
Their life but sets to rise again,
In heaven's eternal morn.

Source: Psalms of Grace #87a

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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