Christ My Song - 1423
Nothing but the purest grace
(Thomas Kelly/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
Nothing but the purest grace.
"By grace ye are saved." (Ephesians 2,5)
1. Nothing but the purest grace
could have saved and set us free;
Saviour, when we see thy face,
O what thanks we'll give to thee!
How we'll tell to all around us,
what we were when mercy found us! PDF - Midi
2. We were then the heirs of woe,
guilty, and condemned to die;
yet, not knowing it was so,
we were in a dream of joy:
such we were when mercy found us,
so we'll tell to all around us.
3. We were foolish, we were blind,
yet we fancied all was right;
darkness reigned within the mind,
yet we thought that darkness light:
such we were when mercy found us,
so we'll tell to all around us.
4. We were foes, were foes to him,
who himself to save us died;
from the world we sought esteem,
and its favour was our pride;
such we were when mercy found us,
so we'll tell to all around us.
Thomas Kelly, Hymns on various passages of Scripture, ca. 1853, Hymn 660.