Hymn 2:99 [Let The Whole Race Of Creatures Lie]

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Title:     Hymn 2:99 [Let The Whole Race Of Creatures Lie]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

The book of God's decrees.

Let the whole race of creatures lie
Abas'd before their God;
Whate'er his sovereign voice hath form'd
He governs with a nod.

[Ten thousand ages ere the skies
Were into motion brought,
All the long years and worlds to come
Stood present to his thought.]

[There's not a sparrow or a worm
But's found in his decrees;
He raises monarchs to their thrones,
And sinks them as he please.]

If light attends the course I run,
'Tis he provides those rays;
And 'tis his hand that hides my sun,
If darkness cloud my days.

Yet I would not be much concern'd,
Nor vainly long to see
The volume of his deep decrees,
What months are writ for me.

When he reveals the book of life,
O, may I read my name
Amongst the chosen of his love,
The followers of the Lamb!

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 2:99 [let The Whole Race Of Creatures Lie]

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