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 147. (C. M.) The Creation of the World, Gen. i. |
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HYMN 147. (C. M.) The Creation of the World, Gen. i.
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‘Now let a spacious world arise,’Said the Creator-Lord:
At once the obedient earth and skies
Rose at his sovereign word.
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Dark was the deep; the waters layConfus'd and drown'd the land:
He call'd the light; the new-born day
Attends on his command.
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He bids the clouds ascend on high;The clouds ascend and bear
A watery treasure to the sky,
And float on softer air.
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The liquid element belowWas gather'd by his hand;
The rolling seas together flow,
And leave the solid land.
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With herbs and plants, a flowery birth,The naked globe he crown'd,
Ere there was rain to bless the earth,
Or sun to warm the ground.
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Then he adorn'd the upper skies;Behold the sun appears,
The moon and stars in order rise
To make our months and years.
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Out of the deep th'almighty KingDid vital beings frame,
The painted fowls of every wing,
And fish of every name.
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He gave the lion and the wormAt once their wondrous birth,
And grazing beasts of various form
Rose from the teeming earth.
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Adam was fram'd of equal clay,Though sovereign of the rest,
Design'd for nobler ends than they,
With God's own image bless'd.
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Thus glorious in the Maker's eyeThe young creation stood;
He saw the building from on high,
His word pronounc'd it good.
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Lord, while the frame of nature stands,Thy praise shall fill my tongue;
But the new world of grace demands
A more exalted song.
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