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Hymnal / album
Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2
Publisher
Farley
Copyright
Public Domain (Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. The publication year, if correct, suggests that this work may be in public domain in the U.S..)
Notes
Originally titled “The tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land.”—[Ezek.] xxxiv. 27. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 55.
Scripture connections
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Verse 1
Make our earthy souls a field (Ezek. 34:27)
Which God delights to bless,
Let us in due season yield
The fruits of righteousness; (Heb. 12:11, Phil. 1:11, James 3:18)
Make us trees of paradise (Ezek. 34:27, Ps. 1:3)
Which more and more thy praise may shew,
Deeper sink, and higher rise,
And to perfection grow. (Phil. 3:12)
Verse 2
Let us by our lives declare
The holy root within,
Trees that cannot evil bear, (Matt. 7:18)
And saints that cannot sin, (I John 3:9, I John 5:18)
Pillars that go out no more, (Rev. 3:12)
Elect of our election sure, (II Pet. 1:10)
Safe, when all the struggle’s o’er,
And pure as God is pure. (I John 3:3)