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Hymn: The promises I sing (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: The promises I sing

Topic: Christ/Second Advent

Writer: Philip Doddridge

Composer: Thomas Clark

Meter: HM

Tune: Warsaw

Hymn Number: 154

Page Number: 063, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

THE promises I sing

Which sov'reign love hath spoke;

Nor will th' eternal King

His words of grace revoke;

They stand secure and steadfast still;

Not Zion's hill abides so sure.



The mountains melt away,

When once the Judge appears;

And sun and moon decay,

That measure mortal years;

But still the same, in radiant lines,

The promise shines through all the flame.



Their harmony shall sound

Through mine attentive ears,

When thunders cleave the ground,

And dissipate the spheres;

Midst all the shock of that dread scene,

I stand serene, Thy word my rock.