Thy promise, Lord, is perfect peace

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Thy promise, Lord, is perfect peace

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Tune: [I take my portion from Thy hand]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Thy promise, Lord, is perfect peace,
And yet my trials still increase;
Till fears at times my soul assail,
That Satan’s rage must yet prevail.

2 Then, Savior, then I fly to Thee,
And in Thy grace my refuge see;
Thou heard’st me from Thy holy hill,
And Thou wilt hear and help me still.

3 Beneath Thy wings secure I sleep;
What foe can harm while Thou dost keep?
I wake, and find Thee at my side,
My omnipresent guard and guide!

4 Oh why should earth or hell distress,
With God so strong, so nigh to bless?
From Him alone salvation flows;
On Him alone, my soul, repose.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #12854

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Thy promise, Lord, is perfect peace
Author:	Henry Francis Lyte

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Thy promise, Lord, is perfect peace. H. F. Lyte. [Ps. iii.] Published in his Spirit of the Psalms, 1834, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. It is in common use in its full form, and also, altered as "Lord, how the troublers of my peace," in the American Baptist Service of Song, 1871.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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