Give me the wings of faith to rise
Give me the wings of faith to rise. Isaac Watts* (1674-1748).
From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 2nd edition (1709), Book II, ‘Composed on Divine Subjects’, with the title, ‘The Examples of Christ and the Saints’:
Give me the Wings of Faith to rise Within the Vail, and seeThe Saints above, how great their Joys, How bright their Glories be.
Once they were mourning here below, And wet their Couch with Tears;They wrestled hard, as we do now, With Sins, and Doubts, and Fears.
I ask them whence their Victory came, They with united Breath,Ascribe their Conquest to the Lamb, Their Triumph to his Death.
They mark’d the Footsteps that he trod, (His Zeal inspir’d their Breast:)And following their...
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