By Grace I'm Saved

Words and music by Christian Ludwig Scheidt · tr. Matthias Loy · 1742

Key of F · 120 BPM · 4/4 · Assurance,Cross · Eph 2:4-9

Verse 1

By grace I'm savedgrace 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 truethen this must be: By grace there is a crown for thee.

Verse 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.

Verse 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.

Verse 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?

Verse 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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