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Text:And Are We Wretches Yet Alive?
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:GREENWICH
Composer:William Richardson
Media:MIDI file

8040. And Are We Wretches Yet Alive?

1 And are we wretches yet alive?
And do we yet rebel?
’Tis boundless, ’tis amazing love,
That bears us up from hell!

2 The burden of our weighty guilt
Would sink us down to flames;
And threatening vengeance rolls above,
To crush our feeble frames.

3 Almighty goodness cries, Forbear!
And straight the thunder stays;
And dare we now provoke His wrath,
And weary out His grace?

4 Lord, we have long abused Thy love,
Too long indulged our sin;
Our aching hearts e’en bleed to see
What rebels we have been.

5 No more, ye lusts, shall ye command,
No more will we obey;
Stretch out, O God, Thy conquering hand,
And drive Thy foes away.

Text Information
First Line: And are we wretches yet alive?
Title: And Are We Wretches Yet Alive?
Author: Isaac Watts
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs 1707-09, Book II
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: GREENWICH
Composer: William Richardson (1729)
Meter: CM
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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