LYRICS
| Meter: | 6 6 8 6 (S.M.)
| Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
| Transl/Adapt: |
| Dates: | 1707
| Bible Refs: | 1 Jn 3:1; Gal 4:6
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 1
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| 64
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MUSIC
| Name: | SWABIA
| | Meter: | 6 6 8 6 (S.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Johann Martin Spiess & Frances Ridley Havergal
| | Dates: | 1745,1847
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 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 552
| No key
| Living Praise
| 198
| D
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 329
| D
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 391
| D
| Hymns of Faith
| 224
| D
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 599
| D
| Believers Hymn Book
| 179
| D
| Believers Hymn Book
| 222
| D
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 661
| Eb
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| 1. Behold what wondrous grace
The Father has bestowed
On sinners of a mortal race,
To call them sons of God!
2. By his dear Son redeemed,
By grace then purified;
What favor that we should be named
For Christ's jointheir and bride!
3. ’Tis no surprising thing
That we should be unknown;
The Jewish world
knew not their King,
God’s everlasting Son.
4. Nor doth it yet appear
How great we must be made;
But when we see our Savior here,
We shall be like our Head.
5. A hope so much divine
May trials well endure;
May purge our souls
from sense and sin,
As Christ the Lord is pure.
6. If in my Father’s love
I share a filial part,
Send down Thy Spirit like a dove,
To rest upon my heart.
7. We would no longer lie
Like slaves beneath the throne;
My faith shall Abba, Father, cry,
And thou the kindred own.
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9. Behold, what wondrous grace
The Father hath bestowed
On members of a fallen race,
To make them sons of God.
10. Now in our Father's love
We share a filial part;
He grants the spirit from above
To dwell within each heart.
11. We can no longer lie
Like slaves beneath the throne;
Our hearts now Abba, Father, cry,
And he the kindred owns.
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