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40. THE LIKENESS OF THE CREATION TO BAPTISM

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​Author:  Unknown
​Music Source:  "Alte Lieder”: Eine Sammlung von Liedern zur Ehre Gottes, Zürich, Switzerland, 1922

1. When God did create the planets
    Through His Word’s almighty tenets,
    Out of dark and silent night,
    All the earth was void and cheerless,
    Till God’s Word with might and clearness
    Filled it with His glorious light.
 
2. As a poor and helpless infant
    Lay the earth in ev’ry instant
    Until light his Word Did give.
    God’s true Spirit on the waters
    Brought about important matters
    So that man on earth could live.
 
3. When he had all things created,
    This great planet had completed,
    Lastly, he created man
    In the likeness of His Maker,
    That he should be a partaker
    Of the good gifts in His plan.
 
4. But, alas! Man soon transgressed
    And thus, lost his Eden blessed;
    He believed not God’s true Word;
    Stubbornly refused to hear it,
    Spurned the leading of the Spirit,
    And would not obey the Lord.
 
5. God pronounced on man the sentence,
    For his sin and disobedience
    And his scorn of grace and faith!
    Then to cleanse the earth of sinning
    And to make a new beginning
    He decreed a healing faith.
 
6. All bold sinners, helpless, crying,
    In the deluge dread were dying,
    Buried in one watery grave.
    Death, begotten of transgression,
    Comes to them without compassion,
    And no one is found to save.
 
7. One alone did heed the warning,
    One just man true wisdom learning
    From the teaching of God’s Word.
    Noah, by God’s hand delivered,
    With his wife and children entered
    In the cov’nant with the Lord.
 
8. This creation is reflected
    Unto Christ and his elected
    Who in this blest union stand;
    Who by grace escape destruction,
    Live no more to see corruption.
    In baptismal grace they stand.


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  • Home
    • Stories of Faith >
      • The Prodigal Son and the Zion’s Harp
      • Steep and Thorny is the Way
      • With Your Zion’s Harps Now Chiming, Praise the Lord!
      • Faithful Unto Death Remain
      • A Loving Devotion to Producing Zion’s Harps, One Copy Per Year
      • Hungarians Begin to Visit Brethren in Communist Ukraine
      • Zion’s Harp Melody Bridges Language Gap
      • Brethren Be Ye Not Affrighted
      • A Letter from Prison
    • Authors
    • Composers
  • Translations
    • Neue Zionsharfe- German
    • Új Sion Hárfa- Hungarian
    • Xapɸa Cиoha- Serbian
    • Noua Harfă A Sionului- Romainian
    • Svete Pisme Novog Siona- Sokac
    • Cithare Davida illi pisme Novog Siona- Bunjevac
    • Harfa Siona- Slovak
    • ПЕСНІ І ХВАЛУ У ХРІСТІ- Ukrainian
    • Zion's Harp
    • Apostolic Christian Hymnal >
      • ACH Texts
      • ACH Sheet Music
    • Arpa De Sion- Spanish
    • Nova Harpa de Sião- Portuguese
    • Sions Harfa- Swedish
    • シオンの竪琴 - Japanese
    • Harfa Siona- Croatian
    • Zion's Hymns
  • Contact
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  • Acknowledgements