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Text:Vain Are the Hopes That Rebels Place
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:YORK
Harmonizer: J. Mil­ton, ?-1647
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7052. Vain Are the Hopes That Rebels Place

1. Vain are the hopes that rebels place
Upon their birth and blood,
Descended from a pious race;
Their fathers now with God.

2. He from the caves of earth and hell
Can take the hardest stones
And fill the house of Abra’m well
With new-created sons.

3. Such wondrous power doth He possess
Who formed our mortal frame,
Who called the world from emptiness,
The world obeyed and came.

Text Information
First Line: Vain are the hopes that rebels place
Title: Vain Are the Hopes That Rebels Place
Author: Isaac Watts (1707)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, 1707, number 99
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: YORK
Harmonizer: J. Mil­ton, ?-1647
Meter: CM
Incipit: 13546 35223 55451
Key: F Major
Source: Scottish Psalter, 1650
Copyright: Public Domain



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