God's Mercy

What mercy and divine compassion
  Has God in Christ revealed to me!
My haughty spirit would not ask it,
  Yet He betowed it, full and free.
In God my heart doth now rejoice:
  I praise His grace with grateful voice.
  I praise His grace with grateful voice.

Eternal wrath should be my portion:
  The Lamb of God, for sinners slain,
Removed the curse and condemnation,
  His blood atoned for every stain.
God's love in Christ on Calvary's Tree
  From guilt and shame has set me free.
  From guilt and shame has set me free.
                   Gerhard Tersteegen, 1697-1769
                          from the Mennonite Hymnary,1942