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“Father, I thank thy wondrous love, That has revealed thy Son To men unlearnèd; and to babes Has made the gospel known.
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“The mysteries of redeeming grace Are hidden from the wise; While pride and carnal reasonings join To swell and blind their eyes.”
4 Thus does the Lord of heaven and earth His great decrees fulfil, And order all his works of grace By his own sovereign will. ISAAC WATTS 1674 L.M. Isaac Watts The Triumph of Faith. Rom. 8. 1, 33-39
Who shall the Lord’s elect condemn?
’Tis God that justifies their souls; And mercy, like a mighty stream, O’er all their sins divinely rolls.
2 Who shall adjudge the saints to hell? ’Tis Christ that suffered in their stead; And the salvation to fulfil, Behold him rising from the dead! 3
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He lives! he lives! and sits above, For ever interceding there; Who shall divide us from his love, Or what shall tempt us to despair? Shall persecution, or distress,
Famine, or sword, or nakedness? He that has loved us bears us through, And makes us more than conquerors, too.
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Faith has an overcoming power; It triumphs in the dying hour. Christ is our life, our joy, our hope, Nor can we sink with such a prop.
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Not all that men on earth can do, Nor powers on high, nor powers below, Shall cause his mercy to remove, Or wean our hearts from Christ our love. ISAAC WATTS 1674 L.M. Isaac Watts
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Electing Grace. Eph. 1. 3-13; John 20. 17
Jesus, we bless thy Father’s name;
Thy God and ours are both the same, What heavenly blessings from his throne Flow down to sinners through his Son!
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“Christ be my first elect,” he said; Then chose our souls in Christ, our Head, Before he gave the mountains birth, Or laid foundations for the earth.
3 Thus did eternal love begin To raise us up from death and sin; Our characters were then decreed, Blameless in love, a holy seed. 4
Predestinated to be sons, Born by degrees, but chose at once;
