Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: And can it be that I should gain
Topic: Christ/Death
Writer: C Wesley
Composer:
Meter: LM six lines
Tune: And Can it Be
Hymn Number: 702
Page Number: 263, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAND can it be that I should gain
An interest in the Saviour's blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain?
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! how can it be,
That Thou, my Lord, shouldst die for me?
He left His Father's throne above
(So free, so infinite His grace);
Emptied Himself of all but love,
And bled for Adam's helpless race;
'Tis mercy all, immense and free;
For, O my God, it found out me!
No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus, with all in Him is mine;
Alive in Him, my living Head,
And cloth'd in righteousness divine,
Bold I approach th' eternal throne,
And claim the crown, thro' Christ my own.