72    L.M.     Isaac Watts
The Triumph of Faith. Rom. 8. 1, 33-39

1 Who shall the Lord’s elect condemn?
  ’Tis God that justifies their souls;
  And mercy, like a mighty stream,
  O’er all their sins divinely rolls.

2 Who shall adjudge the saints to hell?
  ’Tis Christ that suffered in their stead;
  Behold him rising from the dead!

3 He lives! he lives! and sits above,
  For ever interceding there;
  Who shall divide us from his love,
  Or what shall tempt us to despair?

4 Shall persecution, or distress,
  Famine, or sword, or nakedness?
  He that has loved us bears us through,
  And makes us more than conquerors, too.

5 Faith has an overcoming power;
  It triumphs in the dying hour.
  Christ is our life, our joy, our hope,
  Nor can we sink with such a prop.

6 Not all that men on earth can do,
  Nor powers on high, nor powers below,
  Shall cause his mercy to remove,
  Or wean our hearts from Christ our love.