We should have been doom’d with devils to dwell

Verse 1
We should have been doom’d with devils to dwell,
But are not consum’d, but are not in hell!
’Twixt us and the sentence our Advocate stood,
And gave us repentance, and pleaded his blood.

Verse 2
Unworthy to live, our Saviour we own,
Ascribe our reprieve to mercy alone;
The boundless compassion of Jesus we praise,
And all our salvation expect from his grace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.”—[Lam.] iii. 22. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 48.
Publishing: Public Domain