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ITS SECURITY AND BLESSEDNESS.

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stone.-Ep. ii. 20.

HOU hast a temple founded,
Thy church, on Thee, the Rock :
By faith securely grounded,

She stands the tempest's shock:
Her stones are all united

By the cement of love:
Her spire of hope is lighted
By sunbeams from above.

2 The Cross is on her portal,
Which with Thy blood baptized,
Invites to joys immortal

The world evangelized :
Thy grace is ever flowing

Throughout that temple bright,

A temple ever growing

In heavenly life and light.

3 Lord, make us by Thy merit,
There lively stones to be:
Compacted by Thy Spirit
In bonds of unity :

Jewels to deck for ever

The mural diadem

Which crowns the crystal river
Of new Jerusalem.

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HE church of God below.
Is Exe His church above;
Safe shielded from her every foe,
By heavenly power and love.

On high and holy ground

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Her deep foundations rest;
And God within her courts is found
An omnipresent Guest.

God loves her sacred gates,

Her solemn praise and prayer:
And he that humbly on Him waits
Shall surely find Him there.

The church of God below
Shall yet more honoured be;
The nations to her side shall flow,

The world her glories see.

O blest and favoured men

That in her courts are born;
Their life but sets to rise again,
In heaven's eternal morn!

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stately towers and bulwarks
Unrivalled and alone,
Loved theme of many a sacred song,
God's holy city shone.

2 Thus fair was Zion's chosen seat,
The glory of all lands;

Yet fairer, and in strength complete,
The Christian temple stands.

strong,

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The faithful of each clime and age
This glorious church compose-
Built on a rock-with idle rage
The threatening tempest blows.

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may hostile bands alarm,

For God is her defence:

How weak, how powerless each arm,
Against Omnipotence.

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Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

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Matt. xvi. 18.

THO is she that stands triumphant,
Rock in strength, upon the Rock,
Like some city crowned with turrets,
Braving storm and earthquake shock?
Who is she her arms extending,
Blessing thus a world restored :
All the anthems of creation
Lifting to creation's Lord?

2 Empires rise and sink like billows,
Vanish, and are seen no more;
Glorious as the star of morning
She o'erlooks the wild uproar.
Hers the household all embracing ;
Hers the vine that shadows earth :
Blest thy children, mighty mother;
Safe the stranger at thy hearth.

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Psalm lxxxvii.

LORIOUS things of thee were spoken,
Zion, city of our God;

He whose word can ne'er be broken,
Chose thee for His own abode.

2 Lord Thy church is still Thy dwelling,
Still is precious in Thy sight;
Judah's temple far excelling,

Beaming with the Gospel's light.
3 On the Rock of Ages founded,
What can shake her sure repose?
With salvation's walls surrounded,
She can smile at all her foes.

4 Lo! the just of every nation,
Though in distant climes they rove ;
Still as citizens of Zion,

Shall be registered above.

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WATTS.

924 Upon all the glory shall be a defence.—Is. iv. 5.

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APPY the church, thou sacred place,
The seat of Thy Creator's grace ;
Thine holy courts are His abode,
Thou earthly palace of our God!
2 Thy walls are strength; and at thy gates
A guard of heavenly warriors waits;
Nor shall thy deep foundations move,
Fixed on His counsels and His love.
3 Thy foes in vain designs engage;
Against His throne in vain they rage :
Like rising waves, with angry roar,
That dash and die upon the shore.
4 Then let our souls in Zion dwell,
Nor fear the wrath of Rome and hell :
His arms embrace this happy ground,
Like brazen bulwarks built around.
5 God is our shield, and God our sun;
Swift as the fleeting moments run,
On us He sheds new beams of grace,
And we reflect His brightest praise.

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925 The joyful sound. Psalm lxxxix. 15.

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HOW blest the congregation,
Who the gospel know and prize!
Joyful tidings of salvation

Brought by Jesus from the skies ;
He is near them,

Knows their wants, and hears their cries.

2 In His name rejoicing ever,

Walking in His light and love,
And foretasting in His favour
Something here of bliss above;
Happy people!

Who shall harm them? what shall move?

3 In His righteousness exalted,

On from strength to strength they go;

By ten thousand ills assaulted,

Yet preserved from every foe;
On to glory,

Safe they speed through all below.

4 God will keep His own anointed; Nought shall harm them, none condemn : All their trials are appointed;

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All must work for good to them;
All shall help them

To their heavenly diadem.

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87,87,47.
Psalm xlvi.

OD our hope and strength abiding,
Soothes our dread, exceeding nigh:
Fear we not the world's subsiding,
Roots of mountains heaving high,
Darkly heaving

Where in ocean's heart they lie.

KEBLE.

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