1. Sav’d from the awful guilt of sin,
By Him Who bare the cross;
We’ll now a cheerful strain begin,
Where God began with us.
2. We sing the vast unmeasur’d grace,
Of height and depth untold!
Which did the saints elect embrace
As sheep within the fold.
3. We had not known the blood for sin,
Nor sweets of pard’ning love,
Unless our worthless names had been
Enroll’d for life, above.
4. This purpose of eternal love
Did Jesus’ soul sustain;
And earth or hell, the same to move,
Did all conspire in vain.
5. Well may we sing, since bought with blood
Of the Begotten Son;
O how secure God’s purpose stood
Ere time its race begun!