SHORT HYMNS ON SELECT PASSAGES OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.—1:1. BY faith we know, the world was made Formless at first and void: We know, the universe decay’d Shall be by fire destroy’d: But soon the co-eternal Son We shall in glory view, Jehovah sitting on His throne, Creating all things new. 2. The earth was without form, and void, &c.—1:2. SUCH is my soul, confused and void, With darkness palpable o’erspread, Stripp’d of the living