IN THESE INCREASINGLY TROUBLESOME TIMES-- WE NEED A FIRM FOUNDATION! A great help will be a very fine old hymn: How Firm a Foundation, has been popular since it appeared in Rippons 1787 A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors. The author of the hymn may have been Robert Keene who was the song leader at Carters Lane Baptist Church, London, England... which John Rippon pastored for 63 years beginning from 1775. While leading this hymn in chapel, Charles Hodge, president of Princeton Seminary from 1865-78, was said to have become so overcome with emotion that he could not sing the words. When you look carefully at the stanzas... you find many Biblical promises, for example, as found in Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 43:2; 2 Corinthians 12:9; and Hebrews 13:5. Following are all of the stanzas; and then the hymn being sung: How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word! What more can He say than to you He hath said, You, who unto Jesus for refuge have fled? In every condition, in sickness, in health; In povertys vale, or abounding in wealth; At home and abroad, on the land, on the sea, As thy days may demand, shall thy strength ever be. Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed, For I am thy God and will still give thee aid; Ill strengthen and help thee, and cause thee to stand Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand. When through the deep waters I call thee to go, The rivers of woe shall not thee overflow; For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless, And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie, My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply; The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine. Even down to old age all My people shall prove My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love; And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn, Like lambs they shall still in My bosom be borne. The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to its foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, Ill never, no never, no never forsake. youtube/watch?v=rwGW8qRqz4I
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 05:22:44 +0000
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