Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Behold what wondrous grace
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Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: SM
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Hymn Number: 342
Page Number: 167, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBEHOLD! what wondrous grace
The Father has bestowed
On sinners of a mortal race,
To call them sons of God!
'Tis no surprising thing,
That we should be unknown;
The Jewish world knew not their King,
God's everlasting Son.
Nor doth it yet appear
How great we must be made:
But when we see our Saviour here,
We shall be like our Head.
A hope so much divine
May trials well endure;
May purge our souls from sense and sin,
As Christ, the Lord, is pure.
We would no longer lie
Like slaves beneath the throne;
Our faith shall Abba, Father, cry,
And thou the kindred own.