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THOU SPAKEST, LORD, AND INTO ONE

Scripture Verse

God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. Genesis 1:9

Introduction

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Isaac Williams (1802–1865)

Words: Charles Cof­fin, Hym­ni Sac­ri, 1736 (Jubes: et, in prae­ceps aquis). Trans­lat­ed from La­tin to Eng­lish by Is­aac Will­iams (The Word Is Gi­ven, the Wa­ters Flow) & the com­pil­ers of Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern.

Music: Lin­coln (Ra­vens­croft) Tho­mas Ra­vens­croft, The Whole Booke of Psalmes (Lon­don: 1621) (🔊 ).

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Charles Coffin (1676–1749)

Lyrics

Thou spak­est, Lord, and in­to one
The floods to­ge­ther flowed;
Freed from its wa­tery veil, the land
Its ver­dant pas­tures showed.

O Fa­ther, who the earth has giv­en
Our place of toil to be,
Knit all with­in its one wide bound
In one true char­ity.

Strangers and pil­grims here be­low,
We seek a home above,
Where Thou wilt ga­ther in Thine own
Who live in ho­ly love.

Unloving words, with deeds of ill
And words of an­gry strife,
Shall nev­er, Lord, Thy glo­ry see,
Nor win the heav’n­ly life.

The earth it­self from day to day
Their bur­den scarce sus­tains,
And yearns, in tra­vail, to be free
From dark cor­rupt­ion’s chains.

Yea, we too groan with­in our­selves,
And that adopt­ion wait
For which the Ho­ly Spir­it’s seal
Did us pre­des­tin­ate.

Eternal glo­ry be as­cribed
To God, the One in Three,
By whom is poured into our hearts
The grace of char­ity.