2. Lord, Raise My Soul Above The Ground

William Gadsby 13 December 2011 by AHB Library Published in: Gadsby's Hymns Tags:, , , No comments yet

The Perfections of God
(Hymns 1-17)

The Eternity of God: Palm 90:2: “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.”; Lamentations 5:19: “Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.”; Habakkuk 1:12: “Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One?”


I. Watts


1 Lord, raise my soul above the ground,
And draw my thoughts to thee;
Teach me, with sweet and solemn sound,
To praise the eternal Three.

2 Long ere the lofty skies were spread,
Jehovah filled his throne;
Or Adam formed, or angels made,
The Maker lived alone.

3 His boundless years can ne’er decrease,
But still maintain their prime;
Eternity’s his dwelling-place,
And ever is his time.

4 While like a tide our minutes flow,
The present and the past,

He fills his own immortal NOW,
And sees our ages waste.

5 The sea and sky must perish too,
And vast destruction come!

The creatures! look how old they grow,
And wait their fiery doom.

6 Well; let the sea shrink all away,
And flame melt down the skies,
My God shall live an endless day
When the old creation dies.



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