Blest be the wisdom and the power,

The justice and the grace,

That joined in council to restore

And save our ruined race.

Blest be the Lord, who sent his Son

To take our flesh and blood;

He for our lives gave up his own,

To make our peace with God.

He honoured all his Father’s laws,

Which we have disobeyed;

He bore our sins upon the cross,

And our full ransom paid.

Behold Him rising from the grave,

Behold Him raised on high!

He pleads his merits there to save

Transgressors doomed to die.

There on a glorious throne he reigns,

And by His power divine,

Redeems us from the slavish chains

Of Satan and of sin.

Thence shall the Lord to judgment come,

And, with a sovereign voice,

Shall call and break up every tomb,

While waking saints rejoice.

O may I then with joy appear

Before the Judge’s face,

And with the blest assembly there,

Sing His redeeming grace!