Amazing Grace

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Ah, but for free and sovereign grace

Author: Henry Paice
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Ah! but for free and sovereign grace,
I still had lived estranged from God,
Till hell had proved the destined place
Of my deserved but dread abode.

2 But O, amazed, I see the hand
That stopped me in my wild career;
A miracle of grace I stand;
The Lord has taught my heart to fear.

3 To fear his name, to trust his grace,
To learn his will be my employ;
Till I shall see him face to face,
Himself my heaven, himself my joy.

Source: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #200

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Author: Henry Paice

Paice, Henry, was a Baptist minister at Waddesdon Hill, Bucks, in 1795, and, subsequently, at other places, the last being London. During his residence at Broseley, he published a New Selection of Hymns, taken chiefly from the best Periodical Publications, with Additions and Improvements, printed, &c, by W. Smith, Iron bridge. It is undated: but is probably earlier than 1816. One of these, “Great Source of uncreated Light" (Electing Grace), in 6 stanzas, has come down through Denham's Collection and others to modern hymn-books, in 3 stanzas, as, "Ah! but for free and sovereign grace." [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) Go to person page >

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