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Text: | Utter helplessness |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | HUMMEL |
Composer: | C. Zeuner |
1 Nor all the outward forms on earth,
Nor rites that God has given,
Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth,
Can raise a soul to heaven.
2 The sovereign will of God alone
Creates us heirs of grace;
Born is the image of his Son,
A new, peculiar race.
3 The Spirit, like some heavenly wind,
Breathes on the sons of flesh,
New-models all the carnal mind,
And forms the man afresh.
4 Our quickened souls awake and rise
From the long sleep of death;
On heavenly things we fix our eyes,
And praise employs our breath.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Not all the outward forms on earth |
Title: | Utter helplessness |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1890 |
Topic: | The Gospel: Atonement Needed; Atonement: Necessary; Heart: Change of(1 more...) |