Verse 1
God of all-alluring grace,
Thee thro’ Jesus Christ we praise,
Father, in thy Spirit’s power,
Thee we for thy grace adore.
Verse 2
Sent in Jesu’s mighty name,
Grace with God from heaven came,
Grace on all mankind bestow’d,
Grace, the life and power of God.
Verse 3
Us, whoe’er the gift receive,
It enables to believe,
Helps our soul’s infirmity
Still to live, and die with thee.
Verse 4
In the means thou hast enjoin’d,
All who seek the grace shall find,
In the prayer, the fast, the word,
In the supper of their Lord.
Verse 5
Thus the saints of ancient days
Waited, and obtain’d thy grace,
Drank the blood by Jesus shed,
Daily on his body fed.
Verse 6
Thus the whole assembly join’d
Jesus in the midst to find,
Prayer presenting to the skies,
Morn and evening sacrifice.
Verse 7
Jointly praying, and apart,
Each to thee pour’d out his heart,
Solemnly thy grace implor’d,
Still continued in the word:
Verse 8
Search’d the scriptures day and night,
(All their comfort, and delight
There to catch thy Spirit’s power)
Heard, and read, and liv’d them o’er.
Verse 9
Twice a week they fasted then,
Purest of the sons of men,
Choicest vessels of thy grace,
Patterns to the faithful race.
Verse 10
Still to us they speak, tho’ dead,
Bid us in their footsteps tread,
Bid us never dare remove
From the channels of thy love.
Verse 11
Never will we hence depart,
’Till our all in all thou art,
’Till from outward means we fly,
’Till we on thy bosom die.