Goudimel
1. Oh God, Your ways are higher far Than all the faulty ways of man; Creator of sun, moon, and star, And Author of salvation’s plan. 2. We thought You were like heathen gods, Or like a childish potentate; Who struck in anger or destroyed At will, the beings You create. 3. But you have […]
The Blessings of the Just 1. All they are bless’d, who truly fear The Lord through all their days; Who always seek to persevere, To walk in all His ways. For, of the labours of thy hands, Thou shalt eat peacefully; It shall be well with thee, and thou Shalt have prosperity. 2. And so […]
God our Portion here and hereafter 1. ‘Tis true; Jehovah still is kind To Israel, to the pure in mind. And yet my feet had well-nigh tripp’d, And yet well-nigh my steps had slipp’d; For I was envious as I gazed, At riches by ambition raised; And ponder’d with admiring eyes The triumphs of the […]
The happiness of true conversion 1. How blest is he whose errors are corrected, Whose past mistakes are forgotten at last; From whom no hate or pride is e’er expected For from his thought all evil has been cast. When I refus’d to say that I was straying, Weakness and pain afflicted all my being; […]
The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed 1. Why do the heathen rage in foolish pride? And with their vain imaginings deride? The kings and rulers set themselves as one Against the Lord, His church, and His Anointed Son. “Let us renounce that hated law,” they cry, “Unfetter men, cast off the heav’nly tie.” But He […]
Happiness is for the just only 1. How blest is he who does not loosely tread With straying steps by his own planning led; Nor walks the ways of those who live to eat, Nor mocks the gospel in the scorner’s seat. But on God’s law his heart and life do bind, Which, night and […]
