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Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! He, whose word cannot be broken, Formed thee for His own abode. On the rock of ages founded, What can shake Thy sure repose? With salvation’s walls surrounded, Thou may’st smile at all Thy foes. Saviour, if of Zion’s city I through grace a member am, Let the world deride or pity, I will glory in the name. Fading is the worldling’s pleasure, All his boasted pomp and show; Solid joys, and lasting treasure, None but Zion’s children know.
Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! He, whose word cannot be broken, Formed thee for His own abode. On the rock of ages founded, What can shake Thy sure repose? With salvation’s walls surrounded, Thou may’st smile at all Thy foes. Saviour, if of Zion’s city I through grace a member am, Let the world deride or pity, I will glory in the name. Fading is the worldling’s pleasure, All his boasted pomp and show; Solid joys, and lasting treasure, None but Zion’s children know.
Approximate author period: c. 1684 AD · renaissance
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- Isaac Newton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1684 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 705 · printed citation: Newton · subject: ZION
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