486. C. M. Doddridge.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Adams, John G. (John Greenleaf) and Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)
Confidence in God.
1My God! the covenant of thy love
Abides forever sure;
And in thy matchless grace I feel
My happiness secure.
2What though my house be not with thee
As nature could desire?
To nobler joys than nature gives
Thy servants all aspire.
3Since thou, the everlasting God,
My Father art become;
Jesus my Guardian and my Friend,
And heaven my final home:
4I welcome all thy sovereign will,
For all that will is love;
And when I know not what thou dost,
I wait the light above.
5Thy covenant the last accent claims
Of this poor faltering tongue;
And that shall the first notes employ
Of my celestial song.