Sung during the Sunday worship at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London (Spurgeon’s).
Hymn 506 from our hymn book, Psalms & Hymns of Reformed Worship.
MY hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness seems to veil His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil.
His oath, His covenant, and blood
Support me in the ’whelming flood:
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
When I shall launch in worlds unseen
O may I then be found in Him,
Clothed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before His throne.
Author: Edward Mote (1797-1874)
Tune: Solid Rock
Composer: William Batchelder Bradbury (1816-1868), arranged