Hymn 1:99 [Vain Are The Hopes That Rebels Place]

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Title:     Hymn 1:99 [Vain Are The Hopes That Rebels Place]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

Stones made children of Abraham; or, Grace not
conveyed by religious parents, Matt. 3. 9.

Vain are the hopes that rebels place
Upon their birth and blood,
Descended from a pious race;
(Their fathers now with God.)

He from the caves of earth and hell
Can take the hardest stones,
And fill the house of Abra'm well
With new-created sons.

Such wondrous power doth he possess
Who form'd our mortal frame,
Who call'd the world from emptiness,
The world obey'd and came.

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 1:99 [Vain Are The Hopes That Rebels Place]

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