Hymn 2:105 [And Are We Wretches Yet Alive?]

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Title:     Hymn 2:105 [And Are We Wretches Yet Alive?]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

Repentance flowing from the patience of God.

And are we wretches yet alive?
And do we yet rebel?
'Tis boundless, 'tis amazing love
That bears us up from hell!

The burden of our weighty guilt
Would sink us down to flames,
And threatening vengeance rolls above
To crush our feeble frames.

Almighty goodness cries, "Forbear;"
And straight the thunder stays;
And dare we now provoke his wrath,
And weary out his grace?

Lord, we have long abus'd thy love,
Too long indulg'd our sin;
Our aching hearts e'en bleed to see
What rebels we have been.

No more, ye lusts, shall ye command,
No more will we obey;
Stretch out, O God, thy conquering hand,
And drive thy foes away.

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 2:105 [And Are We Wretches Yet Alive?]

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