Hymn 1:87 [Thus saith the High and Lofty One]

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Title:     Hymn 1:87 [Thus saith the High and Lofty One]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

God dwells with the humble and penitent, Isa. 57. 15 16.

Thus saith the High and Lofty One,
"I sit upon my holy throne,
"My name is God, I dwell on high,
"Dwell in my own eternity.

"But I descend to worlds below,
"On earth I have a mansion too,
"The humble spirit and contrite
"Is an abode of my delight.

"The humble soul my words revive,
"I bid the mourning sinner live,
"Heal all the broken hearts I find,
"And ease the sorrows of the mind.

"When I contend against their sin
"I make them know how vile they've been;
"But should my wrath for ever smoke,
"Their souls would sink beneath my stroke."]

O may thy pardoning grace be nigh,
Lest we should faint, despair, and die!
Thus shall our better thoughts approve
The methods of thy chastening love.

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 1:87

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