Hymn 2:96 [Down Headlong From Their Native Skies]

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Title:     Hymn 2:96 [Down Headlong From Their Native Skies]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

Distinguishing love; or, Angels
punished and men saved.

Down headlong from their native skies
The rebel angels fell,
And thunderbolts of flaming wrath
Pursu'd them deep to hell.

Down from the top of earthly bliss
Rebellious man was hurl'd
And Jesus stoop'd beneath the grave
To reach a sinking world.

O love of infinite degree!
Unmeasurable grace!
Must heaven's eternal Darling die
To save a traitorous race?

Must angels sink for ever down,
And burn in quenchless fire,
While God forsakes his shining throne
To raise us wretches higher?

O for this love let earth and skies
With hallelujahs ring,
And the full choir of human tongues
All hallelujah sing.

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 2:96 [Down Headlong From Their Native Skies]

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