1 Ye humble saints, proclaim abroad
The honours of a faithful God,
How just and true area all his ways,
How much above your highest praise!

2 The words his sacred lips declare
Of his own mind the image bear;
What should Him tempt, from frailty free,
Blest in his self-sufficiency?

3 He will not his great self deny:
A God all truth can never lie:
As well might he his being quit
As breaks his oath, or word forget.

4 Let frighten'd rivers change their course,
Or backward hasten to their source;
Swift thro' the air let rocks be hurl'd,
And mountains like the chaff be whirl'd.

5 Let sun and stars forget to rise,
Or quit their stations in the skies;
Let Heaven and earth both pass away,
Eternal truth shall ne'er decay.

6 True to his word, God gave his Son,
To die for crimes which men had done;
Blest pledge! He never will revoke
A single promise he has spoke.