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By Grace I'm Saved

O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE (DRETZEL) · 9.8.9.8.8.8 · words Christian L. Scheidt · music Kornelius Heinrich Dretzel

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By Grace I'm Saved bound ject free mean va pear our earth phra all sal ap se's re and ing, tion ing, ed, less! grace! grace grace! grace! grace By 5. By 4. By 3. 2. By 1. By grace I'm of on this are this His mark our well ground Son, works saved dures: bend; breast, naught; not? to true woe o'er pass this en or for thy As Vouch When All My long safed sin claims heart, is thy rows it thou as be rolls of be liev'st mer sor neath God ground pec ter ween ra fear in just pride long spi ly o'er ex ror ing, tion, ing, ted, less? What Hadst When The Why saints thou, Sa might tremb with lest by tion with ior, have dam tan y na penned threats Sav thou cures, friend? rest: brought, taught? thy soul Him sighs truth false se hood has for What Done When To Has God aught troub us ev poor der science ful a to to led this er God bliss con ren our must up fare pre our on, be: race, hend sought, wel rest com deems this What Was't What That His all not rea He Word must thy can re then is by son that our true faith He ne'er death dear Son. wrought? send. grace. thee. His liv grace to by for 'rance lone grace, but pleas we grace crown by es are there Is And It And By free by a a de through grace God is saved grace Christian L. Scheidt, 1915 O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE (DRETZEL) 9.8.9.8.8.8 Kornelius Heinrich Dretzel, 1906

1.By grace I'm saved—grace free and boundless!
My heart, believ'st thou this or not?
Why tremblest thou with terror groundless?
Has ever God a falsehood taught?
His Word is true—then this must be:
By grace there is a crown for thee.

2.By grace! our works are all rejected,
All claims of merit pass for naught;
The mighty Savior, long expected,
To us this blissful truth has brought,
That He by death redeems our race,
And we are saved alone by grace.

3.By grace! mark well this phrase's meaning,
When sin rolls sorrows o'er thy breast,
When Satan threats with pride o'erweening,
When troubled conscience sighs for rest:
What reason ne'er can comprehend
It pleases God by grace to send.

4.By grace His Son, on earth appearing,
Vouchsafed beneath thy woe to bend;
Hadst thou, damnation justly fearing,
Done aught to render Him thy friend?
Was't not that He thy welfare sought,
And but by grace deliv'rance wrought?

5.By grace! this ground of our salvation
As long as God is true endures:
What saints have penned by inspiration,
What God to our poor soul secures,
What all our faith must rest upon,
Is grace, free grace through His dear Son.

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