Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Begone unbelief my Saviour is near
Topic: Trusting in the Promises of God
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Hymn Number: 107
Page Number: 114, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBegone unbelief, my Saviour is near,
And for my relief will surely appear;
By pray'r let me wrestle, and he will perform;
With Christ in the vessel, I smile at the storm.
Tho' dark be my way, since he is my guide,
'Tis mine to obey, 'tis his to provide;
Tho' cisterns be broken, and creatures all fail,
The word he hath spoken shall surely prevail.
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 thro'.
Delighting to save, he watch'd o'er my path,
When Satan's blind slave, I sported with death;
And can he have taught me to trust in his name,
And thus far have brought me to put me to shame?
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,
Thro' much tribulation must follow their Lord.
How bitter that cup, no heart can conceive,
Which he drank quite up, that sinners might live;
His way was much rougher, and darker than mine;
Did Jesus thus suffer, and shall I repine?
Since all that I meet shall work for my good
The bitter is sweet, the medicine is food
Tho' painful at present, 'twill cease before long,
And then, O! how pleasant the conqueror's song!