Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Praise everlasting praise be paid
Topic: Trusting in the Promises of God
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 68
Page Number: 070, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsPraise, everlasting praise, be paid,
To him who earth's foundation laid;
Praise to the God whose strong decrees,
Sway the creation as he please.
Praise to the goodness of the Lord,
Who rules the people by his word;
And there as strong as his decrees,
He sets his kindest promises.
Firm are the words his prophets give,
Sweet words on which his children live;
Each of them is the voice of God,
Who spoke and spread the skies abroad.
Each of them powerful as that sound,
Which 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 sorrows drown our eyes?
Slowly alas! Our mind receives
The comforts which our Maker gives.
Oh! For a strong, a lasting faith,
To credit what th' almighty saith!
T' embrace the message of his Son,
And call the joys of heaven 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.
Our everlasting hopes arise,
Above the ruinable skies;
Where the eternal Builder reigns,
And his own court his power sustains.