Assert Thy Claims, O God!

Assert Thy claims, O God!

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Assert Thy claims, O God!
Arouse Thy slumbering powers!
And crush beneath Thy conquering rod,
Thine enemies and ours.

2 The crafty and the strong,
Conspire 'gainst Thee and Thine.
O shield Thy hidden ones from wrong,
And blast their foes' design.

3 O let the same right arm,
That helped our fathers before,
Preserve Thy people still from harm,
And their faint hopes restore.

4 Let Thy prevailing Name,
Throughout the earth be known;
Put Satan and his hosts to shame,
And glorify Thy own.

Source: Psalms of Grace #83b

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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