Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Ye humble saints proclaim abroad
Topic: God Perfect
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 224
Page Number: 214, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsYe humble saints proclaim abroad,
The honors of a faithful God,
How just and true are all his ways,
How much above your highest praise!
The words his sacred lips declare
Of his own mind the image bear;
What should him tempt, from frailty free,
Blest in his self-sufficiency?
He will not his great self deny;
A God all truth can never lie;
As well might be his being quit
As break his oath, or word forget.
Let frightened rivers change their course
Or backward hasten to their source;
Swift thro' the air let rocks be hurl'd
And mountains like the cliff be whirl'd.
Let sun and stars forget to rise,
Or quit their stations in the skies;
Let heaven and earth both pass away,
Eternal truth shall ne'er decay.
True to his word, God gave his Son,
To die for crimes which men had done;
Blest pledge! he never will revoke
A singe promise he had spoke.