Text Based On Daniel Chapter 9 (KJV)
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly,
and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
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Words: John Newton: 1725-1807
Music: William Weale: 1696-1727
Bedford (L.M.)
Lyrics/Verses/Key/v7/F/
Score
Alas! By Nature How Depraved
1.
Alas! by nature how depraved,
how prone to every ill!
Our lives, to Satan, how enslaved,
how obstinate our will!
2.
And can such sinners be restored,
such rebels reconciled?
Can grace itself the means afford-
to make a foe a child?
3.
Yes, grace has found the wondrous means-
which shall effectual prove;
To cleanse us from our countless sins,
and teach our hearts to love.
4.
Jesus for sinners undertakes,
and died that we may live;
His blood a full atonement makes,
and cries aloud, “Forgive.”
5.
Yet one thing more must grace provide,
to bring us home to God;
Or we shall slight the Lord, who died,
and trample on His blood.
6.
The Holy Spirit must reveal-
the Saviour’s work and worth;
Then the hard heart begins to feel-
a new and heavenly birth.
7.
Thus bought with blood, and born again,
redeemed, and saved, by grace-
Rebels, in God’s own house obtain-
a son’s and daughter’s place.
A blessèd Weekly Seventh Day (Saturday) Sabbath, to all true believers.
In the Son’s Name - For the Father’s glory.
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