Great King of Glory and of Grace

Great King of glo­ry and of grace!

We own with hum­ble shame

How vile is our de­ge­ner­ate race

And our first fa­ther’s name.

From Ad­am flows our taint­ed blood

The poi­son reigns with­in:

Makes us av­erse to all that’s good

And will­ing slaves to sin.

Daily we break Thy ho­ly laws

And then re­ject Thy grace;

Engaged in the old ser­pent’s cause

Against our mak­er’s face.

We live es­tranged afar from God

And love the dist­ance well;

With haste we run the dan­ger­ous road

That leads to death and hell.

And can such re­bels be re­stored?

Such na­tures made di­vine?

Let sin­ners see Thy glo­ry

Lord

And feel this pow­er of Thine.

We raise our Fa­ther’s name on high

Who His own Spir­it sends

To bring re­bel­li­ous strang­ers nigh

And turn His foes to friends.