Hymn 1:95 [Not All The Outward Forms On Earth]

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Title:     Hymn 1:95 [Not All The Outward Forms On Earth]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

Regeneration, John 1. 13. and 3. 3 &c.

Not 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.

The sovereign will of God alone
Creates us heirs of grace;
Born in the image of his Son,
A new peculiar race.

The Spirit like some heavenly wind
Blows on the sons of flesh,
New models all the carnal mind,
And forms the man afresh.

Our quicken'd souls awake, and rise
From the long sleep of death;
On heavenly things we fix our eyes,
And praise employs our breath.

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 1:95 [Not All The Outward Forms On Earth]

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