O God, Thou Hast Cast Off Thy Saints

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1 O God, You have cast off Your saints;
Thy face You do in anger hide;
And lo, the church for terror faints,
While breaches all her walls divide!

2 Hard things You have upon us laid,
And made us drink most bitter wine,
But still Thy banner we’ve display'd,
And borne aloft the truth divine.

3 Our courage fails not, though the night
No earthly lamp avails to break,
For You wilt soon arise in might,
And of our captors captives make.

4 Through Thee we shall most valiant prove,
And tread the foe beneath our feet;
Through Thee our faith shall hills remove,
And small as chaff the mountains beat.

Source: Psalms of Grace #60c

Author: C. H. Spurgeon

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, the world-famous preacher, was born June 19, 1834, at Kelvedon, in Essex, where his father was Congregational minister. He was educated at Colchester, and at an Agricultural College at Maidstone, after which he was for a few years usher in schools at Newmarket and Cambridge. In 1851 he became minister of a small Baptist church at Waterbeach, near Cambridge, and soon attained great popularity. In 1854 he removed to New Park Street, London, the place where Drs. Gill and Rippon had formerly ministered, and ere long the thronging of people to hear him led, first, to the temporary occupation of Exeter Hall, and of the Surrey Music Hall, and then to the erection of the great Metropolitan Tabernacle, where he still minist… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: O God, thou hast cast off thy saints
Title: O God, Thou Hast Cast Off Thy Saints
Author: C. H. Spurgeon
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

SOLID ROCK

The Sunday school hymn writer William B. Bradbury (PHH 114) composed SOLID ROCK in 1863 for Edward Mote's "My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less." The tune name derives from that song's refrain: "On Christ, the solid rock, I stand. . . .” Bradbury published SOLID ROCK in his 1864 children's collection…

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