Thou, Jesus Christ, Didst Man Become

Thou

Je­sus Christ

didst man be­come

From death us to de­li­ver;

Thy pi­ty­ing eye be­held our doom

That we were lost for­ev­er;

Thou gav­est hope in dir­est need

When death and hell with gap­ing greed

Were rea­dy to de­vour us.

Thou couldst not bear that Sa­tan’s might

Had in its grasp en­slaved us;

In pity Thou didst for us fight

And hast in mer­cy saved us.

From Heav­en Thou cam’st for our re­lease

To pur­chase our eter­nal peace

By bit­ter death and suf­fer­ing.

And Thou hast taught us in Thy Word

That faith shall life in­her­it

For Thou art mer­ci­ful

O Lord

And sav’st us by Thy mer­it

If we but sim­ply do be­lieve

That all Thy child­ren shall re­ceive

The bless­ings Thou hast pro­mised.

Our bro­ther Thou art now be­come—

An hon­or be­yond mea­sure!

Thou wouldst our life with mer­cy crown

And give us rich­est trea­sure.

The world’s con­tempt we need not fear

God’s Son is now our bro­ther dear

What pow­er can now de­stroy us?

All praise to Thee eter­nal­ly

For all Thy gra­cious fa­vor;

We are God’s child­ren now with Thee

Lord Je­sus Christ

our Sav­ior!

Well may we one and all re­joice

And praise our God with heart and voice;

He is our gra­cious Fa­ther.