THE POTTER AND HIS CLAY;
An Hymn Ascribed to Dr. Watts.
THE CONTRAST.
I
Behold the Potter and the Clay!
He forms His Vessels to His Mind;
So did Creating Love display
Itself in forming human Kind.
II
Th' Almighty Workman's Pow'r and Skill
Could have no vile, but noble, Ends;
His One Immutable Good-Will
To all that He hath made extends.
III
This Gracious Sov'reign Lord on High
By His Eternal Word and Voice
Chose all to live, and none to die;
Nor will He ever change His Choice.
IV
Not by His Will, but by their own,
Vile Rebels break His Righteous Laws,
And make the Terror to be known
Of which they are themselves the Cause.
V
His All-electing Love employs
All means the human Race to bless,
That Mortals may His Heav'nly Joys
By re-electing Him possess.
VI
Shall Man reply, that “God decreed
Fall'n Adam's Race not to be blest;
That for a few His Son should bleed,
And Satan should have all the rest?”
VII
Do thou, poor sinful Soul of mine,
By Faith and Penitence, embrace
Of Doubtless, Boundless Love Divine
The Free, the Universal Grace!
VIII
Let God within thy pliant Soul,
Renew the Image of His Son;
The Likeness marr'd will then be Whole,
And show what He in Christ has done.
