Hymnal: The Pilgrim's Hymn Book
Date: 1816
Compiler: Joseph Thomas
Publisher/Printer: J Foster
First Line: Praise everlasting praise be paid
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Meter: LM
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Hymn Number: XXXIII
Page Number: 046, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsPraise, everlasting praise be paid
To him who earth's foundations laid;
Praise to the God whose strong decrees,
Sway the creation as he please.
Praise to the goodness of the Lord,
Who rules his people by his word;
And there as strong as his decrees,
He sets his kindest promise.
Firm are his words his prophets give-
Sweet words on which his children live;
Each of them is the voice of God,
Who spake and spread the skies abroad.
Each of them powerful as that sound,
That bade the new made world go round,
And stronger than the solid poles,
On which the wheel of nature rolls.
Whence then should doubts and fears arise
Why trickling sorrow drown our eyes?
Slowly alas! our mind receives,
The comforts which our Maker gives.
O for a strong, a lasting faith,
To credit what the Almighty saith;
T' embrace the message of his son,
And call the joys of heav'n our own.
Then should the earth's old pillars shake,
And all the wheels of nature break,
Our steady souls would fear no more,
Than solid rocks when billows roar.