Hymn 1:112 [So Did The Hebrew Prophet Raise]

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Title:     Hymn 1:112 [So Did The Hebrew Prophet Raise]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

The brazen serpent; or, Looking to Jesus,
John 3. 14 15 16.

So did the Hebrew prophet raise
The brazen serpent high,
The wounded felt immediate ease,
The camp forbore to die.

"Look upward in the dying hour,
And live," the prophet cries;
But Christ performs a nobler cure,
When Faith lifts up her eyes.

High on the cross the Saviour hung,
High in the heavens he reigns:
Here sinners by th' old serpent stung
Look, and forget their pains.

When God's own Son is lifted up,
A dying world revives,
The Jew beholds the glorious hope,
Th' expiring Gentile lives.

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 1:112 [So Did The Hebrew Prophet Raise]

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