God is a name my soul adores
God is a name my soul adores. Isaac Watts* (1674-1748).
Published in the first edition of Horae Lyricae (1706), from Book I, ‘Sacred to Devotion and Piety'. It had eight stanzas. It was entitled ‘The Transcendent Glories of the Deity’, a title changed in the Second Edition (1709) to ‘The Creator and Creatures’:
God is a Name my Soul adores,Th’Almighty Three, th’Eternal One;Nature and Grace with all their Pow’rsConfess the Infinite unknown.
From thy great Self thy Being springs;
Thou art thine own Original,
Made up of uncreated Things,
And Self-sufficience bears them all.
Thy Voice produc’d the Seas and Spheres,Bid the Waves roar, and Planets shine;But nothing like thy Self appearsThro’ all...
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