<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412793" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymn 9</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The promises of the covenant of grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Isa. 55:1,2; Zech. 13:1; Mic. 7:19; Ezek. 36:25, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In vain we lavish out our lives<br>To gather empty wind;<br>The choicest blessings earth can yield<br>Will starve a hungry mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, and the Lord shall feed our souls<br>With more substantial meat,<br>With such as saints in glory love,<br>With such as angels eat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our God will every want supply,<br>And fill our hearts with peace;<br>He gives by cov'nant and by oath<br>The riches of his grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, and he'll cleanse our spotted souls,<br>And wash away our stains<br>In the dear fountain that his Son<br>Poured from his dying veins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Our guilt shall vanish all away,<br>Though black as hell before;<br>Our sins shall sink beneath the sea,<br>And shall be found no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, lest pollution should o'erspread<br>Our inward powers again,<br>His Spirit shall bedew our souls,<br>Like purifying rain.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our heart, that flinty, stubborn thing,<br>That terrors cannot move,<br>That fears no threat'nings of his wrath,<br>Shall be dissolved by love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or he can take the flint away<br>That would not be refined;<br>And from the treasures of his grace<br>Bestow a softer mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There shall his sacred Spirit dwell,<br>And deep engrave his law,<br>And every motion of our souls<br>To swift obedience draw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus will he pour salvation down,<br>And we shall render praise;<br>We the dear people of his love,<br>And he our God of grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isaac+Watts">Isaac Watts</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412793" data-title="Hymn 9 de Isaac Watts" data-description="The promises of the covenant of grace. Isa. 55:1,2; Zech. 13:1; Mic. 7:19; Ezek. 36:25, etc. In vain we lavish out our lives To gather empty wind; The choicest blessings earth can yield Will starve a hungry mind. Come, and the Lord shall feed o..."></div> </div> </div>

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