HYMN 131
L. M.
The excellency of the Christian religion.
495 Let everlasting glories crown Thy head, my Savior and my Lord; Thy hands have brought salvation down, And writ the blessings in thy word. | [What if we trace the globe around, And search from Britain to Japan, There shall be no religion found So just to God, so safe for man.] | In vain the trembling conscience seeks Some solid ground to rest upon; With long despair the spirit breaks, Till we aply to Christ alone. | How well thy blessed truths agree! How wise and holy thy commands! Thy promises, how firm they be! How firm our hope and comfort stands. | [Not the feigned fields of heath'nish bliss Could raise such pleasures in the mind; Nor does the Turkish paradise Pretend to joys so well refined.] | Should all the forms that men devise Assault my faith with treach'rous art, I'd call them vanity and lies, And bind the gospel to my heart. | |