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Text:Now Let the Feeble All Be Strong
Author:Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
Tune:ALSTONE
Composer:Christopher Edwin Willing
Media:MIDI file

4630. Now Let the Feeble All Be Strong

1. Now let the feeble all be strong,
And make Jehovah’s arm their song,
His shield is spread o’er every saint,
And thus supported, who shall faint?

2. What though the hosts of hell engage
With mingled cruelty and rage!
A faithful God restrains their hands,
And chains them down in iron bands.

3. Bound by His word, He will display
A strength proportioned to our day;
And, when united trials meet,
Will show a path of safe retreat.

4. Thus far we prove that promise good,
Which Jesus ratified with blood:
Still He is gracious, wise, and just,
And still in Him let Israel trust.

Text Information
First Line: Now let the feeble all be strong
Title: Now Let the Feeble All Be Strong
Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton, 1755)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ALSTONE
Composer: Christopher Edwin Willing (1868)
Meter: LM
Incipit: 55651 32123 45653
Key: C Major
Source: Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1868
Copyright: Public Domain



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