The Cyber Hymnal ‎#697

697. Behold What Wondrous Grace

1. Behold what wondrous grace
The Father has bestowed
On sinners of a mortal race,
To call them sons of God!

2. ’Tis no surprising thing
That we should be unknown;
The Jewish world knew not their King,
God’s everlasting Son.

3. Nor doth it yet appear
How great we must be made;
But when we see our Savior here,
We shall be like our Head.

4. A hope so much divine
May trials well endure;
May purge our souls from sense and sin,
As Christ the Lord is pure.

5. If in my Father’s love
I share a filial part,
Send down Thy Spirit like a dove,
To rest upon my heart.

6. We would no longer lie
Like slaves beneath the throne;
My faith shall Abba, Father, cry,
And thou the kindred own.

Text Information

• First Line: Behold what wondrous grace
• Title: Behold What Wondrous Grace
• Author: Isaac Watts (1707)
• Meter: SM
• Language: English
• Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, 1707, number 64
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: SWABIA
• Composer: Johann Martin Spiess (1745)
• Arranger: William H. Havergal (1847)
• Meter: SM
• Incipit: 53422 12345 54556
• Key: D Major
• Source: Davids Harpfen-Spiel (Heidelberg, Germany: 1745)
• Copyright: Public Domain