Hymn 1:17 [O For An Overcoming Faith]

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Title:     Hymn 1:17 [O For An Overcoming Faith]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

Victory over death, 1 Cor. 15, 55 &c.

O for an overcoming faith
To cheer my dying hours,
To triumph o'er the monster Death,
And all his frightful powers.

Joyful with all the strength I have
My quivering lips should sing,
"Where is thy boasted victory, Grave?
And where the monster's sting?"

If sin be pardon'd I'm secure,
Death hath no sting beside;
The law gives sin its damning power,
But Christ, my ransom, died.

Now to the God of victory
Immortal thanks be paid,
Who makes us conquerors while we die,
Thro' Christ our living head.

[The end]
Isaac Watts's Poem: Hymn 1:17 [O For An Overcoming Faith]

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