The people of God

Verse 1
The people of God
Jehovah we praise,
As bought by his blood,
And saved by his grace,
Who daily delivers,
And ransoms his own,
And waters with rivers
Of life from his throne.

Verse 2
Redeem’d from the foe,
We Jesus proclaim,
And triumph to know
The power of his Name,
Preserv’d from all evil
Thro’ God the Most high,
The world, and the devil,
And sin we defy.

Verse 3
Much more than our sin
His grace doth abound,
His kingdom within
Our bosom is found;
His blood’s application
The blessing imparts,
The inward salvation
And hallows our hearts.

Verse 4
Triumphing we go
To triumph again
Till death, the last foe,
By Jesus is slain:
His death shall release us
Call’d out of our graves,
To witness, that Jesus
Eternally saves.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed, and delivered from the hand of the enemy.’—[Ps.] 107:2.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 324.
Publishing: Public Domain