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Our God how faithful are his ways! His love endures the same: Nor from the promise of His Grace: blot out Thy Children’s name: Thus to the Parents and Their seed Shall Thy Salvation come and num’rous Households Meet at last, In One Eternal Home.

Full Text
Our God how faithful are his ways! His love endures the same: Nor from the promise of His Grace: blot out Thy Children’s name: Thus to the Parents and Their seed Shall Thy Salvation come and num’rous Households Meet at last, In One Eternal Home.
Listed on Page Number
289
Sampler Worked By
Betsey Colton
Date of Sampler
1807
Place Sampler Made
Hartford, CT
Sampler Listed on Page
141
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Watts, Isaac. Hymns and Spiritual Songs. London: John Lawrence, 2nd ed., 1709. pg. 90
Notes
Elizabeth Colton died in 1875 unmarried and without children in Hartford, CT. https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_hymns-and-spiritual-song_watts-isaac_1709/page/n113/mode/2up?q=CXIV The first stanza is from the last stanza of Hymn CXIII first published in the 1707 edition. The second stanza is selected from Hymn CXIV which was added in the 1709 edition. These both appear on page 90 of the 1709 edition.