The Holy Word of God

The Ho­ly Word of God:

It is the Christ­ian’s rule

To teach

cor­rect

re­buke and train—

The Church’s price­less jew­el.

Let oth­ers rule by whim

Their lives from day to day.

God’s child­ren have His Ho­ly Word

Which glad­ly they ob­ey.

God-breathed

yet penned by man

Preserved by arms and art

The Church has born it in her breast—

She dare not from it part!

Nor could she ev­er do

Else truth she could not know

But set adrift in lies and myth

On way­ward paths to go.

Yet we’ve no cause to fear.

God’s pro­mis­es are true.

The gates of hell will not pre­vail

O’er those His grace im­bues.

So let God’s true Church sing:

Those who His Word do love—

Whom

as is writ­ten

shall be saved

To join His courts ab­ove.