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I: Unbelief the soul dismays, / What objections will it raise!
But true faith securely leans / On the promise, in the means.
II: If to faith it once be known, / God has said, "It shall be done, / And in this appointed way,"
Faith has then no more to say.
III: Moses road, by faith uprear'd, / Through the sea a path prepared; / Jericho's devoted wall / At the trumpet's sound must fall.
IV: With a pitcher and a lamp / Gideon overthrew a camp:
And a stone, well aim'd by faith, / Proved the arm'd Philistine's death.
V: Thus the Lord is pleased to try / Those who on his help rely; / That the power is all his own.
VI: Yet the means are not in vain, / If the end we would obtain; / Though the breath of pray'r be weak, / None shall find but they who seek.
VII: God alone the heart can reach, / Yet the ministers must preach:
'Tis their part the seed to sow, / And 'tis his to make it grow.