Firmly I Believe And Truly

Firmly I believe and truly

God is Three, and God is One;

and I next acknowledge duly

manhood taken by the Son.



And I trust and hope most fully

in that Manhood crucified;

and each thought and deed unruly

do to death, as he has died.



Simply to his grace and wholly

light and life and strength belong,

and I love supremely, solely,

him the holy, him the strong.

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And I hold in veneration,

for the love of him alone,

holy Church as his creation,

and her teachings are his own.



Adoration aye be given,

with and through the angelic host,

to the God of earth and heaven,

Father, Son and Holy Ghost.



Text: John Henry Newman (1865)

Tune: SHIPSTON 87.87