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Text:Now Satan Comes with Dreadful Roar
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:OLD MARTYRS
Composer:Anonymous
Media:MIDI file

4643. Now Satan Comes with Dreadful Roar

1. Now Satan comes with dreadful roar
And threatens to destroy;
He worries whom he can’t devour
With a malicious joy.

2. Ye sons of God, oppose his rage,
Resist, and he’ll begone;
Thus did our dearest Lord engage
And vanquish him alone.

3. Now he appears almost divine,
Like innocence and love;
But the old serpent lurks within
When he assumes the dove.

4. Fly from the false deceiver’s tongue,
Ye sons of Adam, fly;
Our parents found the snare too strong,
Nor should the children try.

Text Information
First Line: Now Satan comes with dreadful roar
Title: Now Satan Comes with Dreadful Roar
Author: Isaac Watts (1707-9)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-9, Book II, number 157
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: OLD MARTYRS
Composer: Anonymous (1615)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 13153 21557 56155
Key: d minor
Source: Psalms (Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land: 1615)
Copyright: Public Domain



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