Versos English Philip Doddridge Believing with the Heart, and confessing with the Mouth, necessary to Salvation. Rom. x. 6-10

English poem

Believing with the Heart, and confessing with the Mouth, necessary to Salvation. Rom. x. 6-10

by (1773–1832)

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And is Salvation brought so near, Where sinful Men expiring lie? Triumph, my Soul, the Sound to hear, And shout it joyous to the Sky.

I ask not, who to Heav'n shall scale, That Christ the Saviour thence may come; Or who Earth's inmost Depths assail To bring him from the dreary Tomb.

From Heav'n on Wings of Love he flew, And Conqu'ror from the Tomb he sprung: My Heart believes the Witness true, And dictates to my faithful Tongue.

I sing Salvation brought so near, No more on Earth expiring lie; I teach the World my Joys to hear, And shout them to the ecchoing Sky.