Faith Fullness: Hebrews Series - 15

Tune: Hursley

('Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear')

Hebrews 11 v.32-40

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They who in faith in days gone by

Here let their wondrous deeds be told

Grant Lord we their faith follow thus

In our daily walk us enfold

 

Through faith they did subdue kingdoms

Wrought righteousness, did good to all

Obtained promises, stopped the mouths

Of lions, their raging did stall

 

They quenched the violence of fire

Escaped the edge of the sword drawn

Out of weakness they were made strong

Waxed valiant in battle borne

 

They turned to flight the enemies

Of the armies, gained victory

Women received their dead to life

In God all their faith was, now see

 

And other had trial of cruel

Mockings and scourgings, yes even

Bonds of imprisonment, some stoned

Some sawn asunder, tempted then

 

Some slain with sword, some wandering

In sheepskins, goatskins, destitute

Afflicted, tormented were such

The Lord God by faith their pursuit

 

The world was not worthy of them

They wandered in deserts, mounts, dens

Cave of the earth, remote places

Woodlands and glades and leafy fens

 

These all had obtained good report

Through faith, yet did not he promise

Obtain, for God some better thing

Had for us, that we should not miss

 

'Tis that they, those of faith of old

Should not without us perfect be

But we too included, our faith

That with us they made complete, see