The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D. Containing, besides his Sermons, and Essays on miscellaneous subjects, several additional pieces, Selected from his Manuscripts by the Rev. Dr. Jennings, and the Rev. Dr. Doddridge, in 1753: to which are prefixed, memoirs of the life of the author, compiled by the Rev. George Burder. In six volumes |
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HYMN 99. (C. M.) Stones made Children of Abraham; or, Grace not conveyed by Religious Parents, Matt. iii. 9.
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Vain are the hopes that rebels placeUpon their birth and blood,
Descended from a pious race;
(Their fathers now with God.)
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He from the caves of earth and hellCan take the hardest stones,
And fill the house of Abra'm well
With new-created sons.
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Such wondrous power doth he possessWho form'd our mortal frame,
Who call'd the world from emptiness,
The world obey'd and came.
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