{"id":25202,"date":"2025-06-23T00:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T00:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25202"},"modified":"2025-06-23T23:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:30:56","slug":"god-in-his-earthly-temples-lays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/06\/god-in-his-earthly-temples-lays\/","title":{"rendered":"God In His Earthly Temples Lays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 God in his earthly temples lays<br \/>\nFoundations for his heavenly praise;<br \/>\nHe likes the tents of Jacob well,<br \/>\nBut still in Zion loves to dwell.<\/p>\n<p>2 His mercy visits every house,<br \/>\nThat pay their night and morning vows;<br \/>\nBut makes a more delightful stay<br \/>\nWhere churches meet to praise and pray.<\/p>\n<p>3 What glories were described of old!<br \/>\nWhat wonders are of Zion told!<br \/>\nThou city of our God below,<br \/>\nThy fame shall Tyre and Egypt know.<\/p>\n<p>4 Egypt and Tyre, and Greek and Jew,<br \/>\nShall there begin their lives anew;<br \/>\nAngels and men shall join to sing<br \/>\nThe hill where living waters spring.<\/p>\n<p>5 When God makes up his last account<br \/>\nOf natives in his holy mount,<br \/>\n\u2019Twill be an honour to appear<br \/>\nAs one new-born or nourished there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25202\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 God in his earthly temples lays<br \/>\nFoundations for his heavenly praise;<br \/>\nHe likes the tents of Jacob well,<br \/>\nBut still in Zion loves to dwell.<\/p>\n<p>2 His mercy visits every house,<br \/>\nThat pay their night and morning vows;<br \/>\nBut makes a more delightful stay<br \/>\nWhere churches meet to praise and pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":25204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279,1282],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-25202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-triune-jehovah","category-isaac-watts-hymns","tag-divine-worship","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25205,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25202\/revisions\/25205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}