1 SAVED from the damning power of sin,
The law’s tremendous curse,
We’ll now the sacred song begin
Where God began with us.

2 We’ll sing the vast unmeasured grace
Which, from the days of old,
Did all the chosen sons embrace,
As sheep within the fold.

3 The basis of eternal love
Shall mercy’s frame sustain;
Earth, hell, or sin, the same to move,
Shall all conspire in vain.

4 Sing, O ye sinners bought with blood,
Hail the Great Three in One;
Tell how secure the covenant stood
Ere time its race begun.

5 Ne’er had ye felt the guilt of sin,
Nor sweets of pardoning love,
Unless your worthless names had been
Enroll’d to life above.

6 Oh what a sweet exulting song
Shall rend the vaulted skies,
When, shouting grace, the blood-wash’d throng
Shall see the Top Stone rise.
John Kent, 1803.

C. H. Spurgeon, Our Own Hymn Book: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Public, Social and Private Worship, (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1883).