Songs 48

¹Let Christian faith and hope dispel

the fears of guilt and woe;

The Lord Almighty is our friend,

and who can prove a foe?

²He who his Son, most dear and lov’d,

gave up for us to die,

Shall he not all things freely give

that goodness can supply?

³Behold the best, the greatest gift,

of everlasting love!

Behold the pledge of peace below,

and perfect bliss above!

⁴Where is the judge who can condemn,

since God hath justify’d?

Who shall charge those with guilt or crime

for whom the Saviour dy’d?

⁵The Saviour dy’d, but rose again

triumphant from the grave;

And pleads our cause at God’s right hand,

omnipotent to save.

⁶Who then can e’er divide us more

from Jesus and his love,

Or break the sacred chain that binds

the earth to heav’n above?

⁷Let troubles rise, and terrors frown,

and days of darkness fall;

Through him all dangers we’ll defy,

and more than conquer all.

⁸Nor death nor life, nor earth nor hell,

nor time’s destroying sway,

Can e’er efface us from his heart,

or make his love decay.

⁹Each future period that will bless,

as it has bless’d the past;

He lov’d us from the first of time,

he loves us to the last.