How Firm a Foundation- 618 (Verses 1,3,5)

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,

is laid for your faith in God’s excellent word!

What more can be said than to you God has said,

to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?

“When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie,

the rivers of woe shall not thee over-flow;

for I will be near thee, thy troubles to bless,

and sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.”

“The soul that on Jesus still leans for repose,

I will not, I will not desert to its foes;

that soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,

I’ll never, no never, no never forsake!”