Love to the Creatures is Dangerous

Top Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Arrangements Page Scans Instances

How vain are all things here below!

Author: Isaac Watts
Published in 244 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	All Glory, Laud and Honor (Organ express…

Representative Text

1 How vain are all things here below!
How false, and yet how fair!
Each pleasure hath its poison too,
And every sweet a snare.

2 The brightest things below the sky
Give but a flattering light;
We should suspect some danger nigh
Where we possess delight.

3 Our dearest joy, and nearest friends,
The partners of our blood,
How they divide our wavering minds,
And leave but half for God!

4 My Saviour, let thy beauties be
My soul's eternal food;
And grace command my heart away
From all created good.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #650

All representative texts • Compare texts • Text size: Regular | Large ^ top

Author: Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts was the son of a schoolmaster, and was born in Southampton, July 17, 1674. He is said to have shown remarkable precocity in childhood, beginning the study of Latin, in his fourth year, and writing respectable verses at the age of seven. At the age of sixteen, he went to London to study in the Academy of the Rev. Thomas Rowe, an Independent minister. In 1698, he became assistant minister of the Independent Church, Berry St., London. In 1702, he became pastor. In 1712, he accepted an invitation to visit Sir Thomas Abney, at his residence of Abney Park, and at Sir Thomas' pressing request, made it his home for the remainder of his life. It was a residence most favourable for his health, and for the prosecution of his literary… Go to person page >

^ top

First Line:	How vain are all things here below!
Title:	Love to the Creatures is Dangerous
Author:	Isaac Watts
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain