Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon
Date: 1848
Compiler: A S Hayden
Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden
First Line: Hail sov'reign love that first began
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune: Hiding Place
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 249, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHail! Sov'reign love, that first began
The scheme to rescue fallen man;
Hail! Matchless, free, eternal grace,
That gave my soul a hiding place!
Against the God that built the sky,
I fought with hands uplifted high;
Despised the mansions of his grace,
Too proud to seek a hiding place.
Enwrapt in dark, Egyptian night,
And fond of darkness more than light,
Madly I ran the sinful race,
Secure without a hiding place.
But lo! Th' eternal counsel ran,
"Almighty love, arrest the man!"
I felt the arrows of distress,
And found I had no hiding place.
But lo! A heav'nly voice I heard,
And mercy's angel soon appear'd,
Who led me on a gentle pace,
To Jesus Christ, my hiding place.