Isaac Watts Poems

Christ our passover.

Lo, the destroying angel flies
To Pharaoh's stubborn land;
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Complaint of desertion and temptations.

Dear Lord! behold our sore distress;
Our sins attempt to reign;
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The ruin of the Antichrist.

Isa. 63:4-7.
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Meditation of heaven; or, The joy of faith.

My thoughts surmount these lower skies,
And look within the veil;
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Satan's devices.

Now Satan comes with dreadful roar
And threatens to destroy;
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Presumption and despair; or, Satan's various temptations.

I hate the tempter and his charms,
I hate his flatt'ring breath;
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Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49
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The inward witness to Christianity.

1 Jn. 5:10.
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The gospel the power of God to salvation.

Rom. 1:16.
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Hezekiah's song; or, Sickness and recovery.

Isa. 38:9ff.
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