Hymn 1:129 [Saints, At Your Father's Heavenly Word]

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Title:     Hymn 1:129 [Saints, At Your Father's Heavenly Word]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

Submission and deliverance; or, Abraham offering
his son, Gen. 22. 6 &c.

Saints, at your Father's heavenly word
Give up your comforts to the Lord;
He shall restore what you resign,
Or grant you blessings more divine.

So Abraham with obedient hand,
Led forth his son at God's command,
The wood, the fire, the knife he took,
His arm prepar'd the dreadful stroke.

"Abraham, forbear, (the angel cry'd)
"Thy faith is known, thy love is try'd,
"Thy son shall live, and in thy seed
"Shall the whole earth be bless'd indeed."

Just in the last distressing hour
The Lord displays delivering power;
The mount of danger is the place
Where we shall see surprising grace.

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 1:129 [Saints, At Your Father's Heavenly Word]

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