LYRICS
| Meter: | 6 6 8 6 (S.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
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| | Dates: | 1707-1709
| | Bible Refs: | Ez 36:26
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 2
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| 1. Is this the kind return,
And these the thanks we owe,
Thus to abuse eternal love,
Whence all our blessings flow?
2. To what a stubborn frame
Has sin reduced our mind!
What strange rebellious wretches we,
And God as strangely kind!
3. On us he bids the sun
Shed his reviving rays;
For us the skies their circles run,
To lengthen out our days.
4. The brutes obey their God,
And bow their necks to men;
But we, more base, more brutish things,
Reject his easy reign.
5. Turn, turn us, mighty God,
And mold our souls afresh;
Break, sovereign grace, these hearts of stone,
And give us hearts of flesh.
6. Let old ingratitude
Provoke our weeping eyes,
And hourly as new mercies fall
Let hourly thanks arise.
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