Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: The Catechism Justification Lyrics: 1 Now I have found the firm foundation,
Where evermore my anchor grounds!
It lay there ere the world's creation,
Where else, but in my Savior's wounds?
Foundation, which unmoved shall stay,
When earth and heaven pass away.
2 It is that mercy never ending
Which human wisdom far transcends,
Of Him, who, love's arms extending,
To wretched sinners condescends;
Whose heart with pity still doth break,
Whether we seek Him or forsake.
3 Our ruin God has not intended,
He wills salvation to bestow;
For this the Son to earth descended
And then to Heaven again returned;
For this so patient evermore
He knocketh at our heart’s closed door.
4 O depth of love, in which past finding,
My sins through Christ's blood disappear;
This is for wounds the safest binding,
There is no condemnation here;
For Jesus’ blood forever cries:
Free mercy, mercy, to the skies!
5 I never will forget this crying;
In faith I’ll trust it all my days,
And, when o’er all my sins I’m sighing,
I toward my Father’s heart will gaze;
This always doth to me extend
A mercy the will never end.
6 Be it with me as He is willing,
Whose mercy is a boundless sea;
May He himself my heart be stilling,
That this may ne'er forgotten be;
Then it will rest, in joy and woe,
On mercy, while it beats below.
7 On this foundation I, unshrinking,
Will stand, while I on earth remain;
This shall engage my acting, thinking,
While I the breath of life retain;
Then sin I in eternity,
Unfathomed Mercy, still of Thee.
Now I have found the firm foundation
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