Hymn
The Saint's Trial and Safety
- Writer
- Isaac Watts
Unshaken as the sacred hill,
And firm as mountains be,
Firm as a rock the soul shall rest
That leans, O Lord, on thee.
Not walls nor hills could guard so well
Old Salem's happy ground,
As those eternal arms of love
That every saint surround.
While tyrants are a smarting scourge
To drive them near to God,
Divine compassion does allay
The fury of the rod.
Deal gently, Lord, with souls sincere,
And lead them safely on
To the bright gates of Paradise,
Where Christ their Lord is gone.
But if we trace those crooked ways
That the old serpent drew,
The wrath that drove him first to hell
Shall smite his followers too.
The Saint's Trial and Safety — Text from The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts, 1835. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/the-saints-trial-and-safety
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Who wrote The Saint's Trial and Safety?
The words of The Saint's Trial and Safety were written by Isaac Watts; the version here was published in 1835. The library holds 248 more hymns by Isaac Watts, including The Lord's Day and Heaven Invisible and Holy.
Is The Saint's Trial and Safety public domain?
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What is the meter of The Saint's Trial and Safety?
The Saint's Trial and Safety is in Common Meter (8.6.8.6). Hymns in the same meter can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, I Know That My Redeemer Lives, Soon as I heard my Father say and A Song of Deliverance from Great Distress.