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Hymn 227: Heaven is a place of rest from sin
HYMN CCXXVII.
Heaven is a place of rest from sin; But all who hope to enter there, Must here that holy course begin, Which shall their souls for rest prepare.
Clean hearts, O God! in us create, Right spirits, Lord, in us renew; Commence we now that higher state, Now do Thy will as angels do.
A life in heaven!--O what is this? The sum of all that faith believed; Fulness of joy, and depths of bliss, Unseen, unfathom'd, unconceived.
While thrones, dominions, princedoms, powers, And made perfect, triumph thus, A goodly heritage is ours, There is a heaven on earth for us.
The Church of Christ, the School of , The Spirit teaching by the word; In those our Saviour's steps we trace, By this His living voice is heard.
Firm in His footsteps may we tread, Learn every lesson of his love; And be from to glory led, From heaven below to heaven above.