Unbelief the soul dismays

The words

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   Stanza 1. Unbelief the soul dismays,What objections will it raise!But true faith securely leansOn the promise, in the means.

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   Stanza 2. If to faith it once be known,God has said, “It shall be done,And in this appointed way;”Faith has then no more to say.

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   Stanza 3. Moses’ rod, by faith upreared,Through the sea a path prepared;Jericho’s devoted wall,At the trumpet’s sound must fall.

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   Stanza 4. With a pitcher and a lamp,Gideon overthrew a campAnd a stone, well aimed by faith,Proved the armed Philistine’s death.

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   Stanza 5. Thus the LORD is pleased to tryThose who on his help rely;By the means he makes it known,That the pow’r is all his own.

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   Stanza 6. Yet the means are not in vain,If the end we would attain;Though the breath of prayer be weak,None shall find, but they who seek.

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   Stanza 7. God alone the heart can reach;Yet the ministers must preach;’Tis their part the seed to sow,And ’tis his to make it grow.

Olney Hymns (1779), Book 3, Hymn 39. John Newton. Public domain. CCEL transcription with modernized spelling. www.praylock.com/olney-hymns/3-39