"O 'tis a Thought would melt a Rock, / And make a Heart of Iron move."
Christ's Amazing Love and My Amazing Coldness [from Horae Lyricae]
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See <u>Hor&aelig; Lyric&aelig;: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Two books.</u> (London: Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence, 1706). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004851068.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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See also Isaac Watts, <u>Hor&aelig; Lyric&aelig;. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Three Books</u>, 2nd ed. (London: Printed by J. Humfreys, for N. Cliff, 1709). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW110272883&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Searching text from <u>The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D.</u>, 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810). [Titled "Desiring to Love Christ" in 1810 version searched; confirmed in 1706 edition]