EN 5739 Behold the Amazing Gift of Love
1John.3.1
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Behold th’amazing gift of love
The Father hath bestowed
On us, the sinful sons of men,
To call us sons of God!
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Concealed as yet this honor lies,
By this dark world unknown,
A world that knew not when He came,
Even God’s eternal Son.
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High is the rank we now possess;
But higher we shall rise;
Though what we shall hereafter be
Is hid from mortal eyes.
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Our souls, we know, when He appears,
Shall bear His image bright;
For all His glory, full disclosed,
Shall open to our sight.
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A hope so great, and so divine,
May trials well endure;
And purge the soul from sense and sin,
As Christ Himself is pure.
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Behold what wondrous grace
The Father hath bestow’d
On sinners of a mortal race
To call them Sons of God!
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’Tis no surprising thing,
That we should be unknown;
The Jewish world knew not their King,
God’s everlasting Son.
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Nor doth it yet appear
How great we must be made;
But when we see our Saviour here,
We shall be like our Head.
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A hope so much divine
May trials well endure,
May purge our souls from sense and sin
As Christ the Lord is pure.
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If in my Father’s love
I share a filial part,
Send down Thy Spirit like a dove,
To rest upon my heart.
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We would no longer lie
Like slaves beneath the throne;
My faith shall Abba, Father, cry,
And Thou the kindred own.

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