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Hymn 110
Death and immediate glory.
2 Cor. 5:1,5-8.
There is a house not made with hands,
Eternal and on high;
And here my spirit waiting stands,
Till God shall bid it fly.
Shortly this prison of my clay
Must be dissolved and fall;
Then, O my soul! with joy obey
Thy heav’nly Father’s call.
‘Tis he, by his almighty grace,
That forms thee fit for heav’n;
And, as an earnest of the place,
Has his own Spirit giv’n.
We walk by faith of joys to come,
Faith lives upon his word;
But while the body is our home,
We’re absent from the Lord.
‘Tis pleasant to believe thy grace,
But we had rather see;
We would be absent from the flesh,
And present, Lord, with thee.
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