GRPL THREAD: Songs of Grace

[drstevej]

GRPL THREAD: "Songs of Grace"

The thread is established to compile an anthology of psalms, hymns and choruses which proclaim a sovereign God whose grace is un-leveraged.

• You do not need to post the entire song.
• You may also include your comments on your selection.
• Arminians and other "I Lifted Me" - types are welcome to start their own anthropocentric thread.

GRPL = Grand Reformed Ping List

[drstevej]

And Can it Be? -- Charles Wesley

Long my imprisoned spirit lay
Fast bound in sin and nature's night.
Thine eye diffused a quick'ning ray:
I woke -- the dungeon flamed with light!
My chains fell off, my heart was free
I rose, went forth and followed Thee.

 

No condemnation now I dread
Jesus, and all in Him, is mine!
Alive in Him, my living Head
And clothed in righteousness divine
Bold I approach the 'ternal throne
And claim the crown thru Christ my own.
 

[drstevej]

GRPL: Songs of Grace Ping

[drstevej]

GRPL: Songs of Grace ping

[Gamecock]

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me,
His Word my hope secures;
He will my Shield and Portion be,
As long as life endures.

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, Who called me here below,
Shall be forever mine.

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun

[Jean Chauvin]

How Vast the Benefits Divine

How vast the benefits divine which we in Christ possess!
We are redeemed from sin and shame and called to holiness.
'Tis not for works that we have done, These all to Him we owe,
But He of His electing love Salvation doth bestow.

To Thee, O Lord, alone is due All glory and renown;
Aught to ourselves we dare not take, or rob Thee of Thy crown.
Thou wast Thyself our Surety In God's redemption plan,
In Thee His grace was given us, Long ere the world began.

Safe in the arms of sovereign love We ever shall remain;
Nor shall the rage of earth or hell Make Thy sure counsel vain.
Not one of all the chosen race but shall to heaven attain,
Here they will share abounding grace, And there with Jesus reign.

Words by Augustus M. Toplady, 1774
Revised, Dewey Westra, 1931
Tune: Seraph C.M.D.

[AZhardliner]

Regarding Christ's Church:

How sweet and awful is the place
With Christ within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores.

While all our hearts and all our songs
Join to admire the feast,
Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,
"Lord, why was I a guest?

"Why was I made to hear thy voice,
And enter while there's room,
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?"

'Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly drew us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.

Pity the nations, O our God,
Constrain the earth to come;
Send thy victorious Word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.

We long to see thy churches full,
That all the chosen race
May, with one voice and heart and soul,
Sing thy redeeming grace.

Words by Isaac Watts
Old Trinity Hymnal #271, Tune St. Columba
New Trinity Hymnal #469

May we be daily gripped by Grace!

[xzins]

You are wrong about Charles Wesley. The song is about prevenient grace. Charles' ordo salutis was the right order: (prevenient grace) belief regeneration salvation justification.

I've posted other songs of his to demonstrate that his and his brother, John's, thelogy was identical, but I'll allow you to misinterpret again one of history's greatest, most prolific Arminian songwriters. (Besides, it's neat your starting out your list of songs with a Wesley/Arminian writer. There's a poetic justice to this.)

I like you.

Otherwise, you'd need your asbestos suit. :>)

[BibChr]

And Can It Be, ALL of it, is probably my favorite. It sings better than Wesley taught. It is a soaring tribute to the sovereign saving grace of God to dead, helpless, totally depraved sinners.

Dan

[Gamecock]

On Wesley: Even a broken clock is right twice a day.....

[FormerLib]

By the way, I do want to thank you for using the term "Arminians" in either the title or close enough to the top to be seen in the preview.

[xzins]

Written one year later.

Let Us Plead for Faith Alone

Words: Charles Wesley, 1740 (Eph. 2:8-10)
Music: Foundery Collection, 1742

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Listen to the Music

1.
Let us plead for faith alone,
faith which by our works is shown;
God it is who justifies,
only faith the grace applies.

2.
Active faith that lives within,
conquers hell and death and sin,
hallows whom it first made whole,
forms the Savior in the soul.

3.
Let us for this faith contend,
sure salvation is the end;
heaven already is begun,
everlasting life is won.

4.
Only let us persevere
till we see our Lord appear,
never from the Rock remove,
saved by faith which works by love.

[drstevej]

I like you too.

***Arminians and other "I Lifted Me" - types are welcome to start their own anthropocentric thread.***

[drstevej]

See post #12.

[jude24]

I'll post 2:

The first one is significant because its found within the Plymouth Brethren's "Hymns of Worship and Praise." Most Plymouth Brethren do not realize that their roots are no less Calvinistic than mine. Last time I called for this song (over the summer), I got a glare for calling for this one... lol...

Sovereign Grace O'er Sin Abounding by John Kent

1. Sovereign grace o’er sin abounding!
Ransomed souls, the tidings swell;
’Tis a deep that knows no sounding;
Who its breadth or length can tell?
On its glories,
Let my soul for ever dwell.

2. What from Christ that soul can sever,
Bound by everlasting bands?
Once in Him, in Him for ever;
Thus the eternal covenant stands.
None shall take Thee
From the Strength of Israel’s hands.

3. Heirs of God, joint-heirs with Jesus,
Long ere time its race begun;
To His name eternal praises;
O what wonders love has done!
One with Jesus,
By eternal union one.

4. On such love, my soul, still ponder,
Love so great, so rich, so free;
Say, while lost in holy wonder,
Why, O Lord, such love to me?
Hallelujah!
Grace shall reign eternally.

[drstevej]

Next breaking of bread meeting request it again.

Say, " A dear dispensational Calvinist brother has requested we sing this hymn."

[xzins]

This one is clearly about prevenient grace and the ordo is also clearly seen.

Spirit of Faith, Come Down

Words: Charles Wesley, 1746
Music: Sacred Harp (Mason), 1840

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Listen to the Music

1.
Spirit of faith, come down,
reveal the things of God,
and make to us the Godhead known,
and witness with the blood.
'Tis thine the blood to apply
and give us eyes to see,
who did for every sinner die
hath surely died for me.

2.
No one can truly say
that Jesus is the Lord,
unless thou take the veil away
and breathe the living Word.
Then, only then, we feel
our interest in his blood,
and cry with joy unspeakable,
"Thou art my Lord, my God!"

3.
O that the world might know
the all atoning Lamb!
Spirit of faith, descend and show
the virtue of his name;
the grace which all may find,
the saving power, impart,
and testify to humankind,
and speak in every heart.

4.
Inspire the living faith
(which whosoe'er receive,
the witness in themselves they have
and consciously believe),
the faith that conquers all,
and doth the mountain move,
and saves whoe'er on Jesus call,
and perfects them in love.

[jude24]

My second song is a CCM one. I post it as Exhibit A of why we shouldn't cavilierly dismiss CCM or paint it with too broad a brush. It's by Caedmon's Call (my personal favorite):

Thankful by Derek Webb

You know I ran across
An old box of letters
When I was bagging up some clothes for goodwill
But you know I had to laugh
At the same old struggles
That plagued me then are plaguing me still

'Cause I know the road is long
From the ground to glory
But a boy can hope he's getting some place
But you see I'm running from
The very clothes I'm wearing
And dressed like this I'm fit for the chase

You know there is none righteous
Not one who understands
There is none who seeks God no not one
No not one

So I am thankful that I'm incapable of doing any good on my own
I'm so thankful that I'm incapable of doing any good on my own

'Cause we're all still-born
Dead in our transgressions
Shackled up to the sin we hold so dear

What part can I play
In the work of redemption
'Cause I can't refuse and I cannot add a thing
'Cause I am just like Lazarus
And I can hear your voice
And I stand and rub my eyes and walk to you
Because I have no choice

So I am thankful that I'm incapable of doing any good on my own
I'm so thankful that I'm incapable of doing any good on my own

'Cause it's by grace I have been saved
And through faith it's not my own
It is a gift of God and not by works
Lest anyone should boast

[P-Marlowe]

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[jude24]

You trying to get me kicked out....?

In the past month, I've lived dangerously. I denounced Dave Hunt as a Pelagian publically, in spite of the fact that one of the elders grew up knowing the guy. The next week I spoke out of Rom 9:22ff, saying that the ultimate end of God is to glorify himself.

[jude24]

Objection, Counsellor, irrelevant....