1. Come, happy souls, approach your God With new melodious songs; Come, tender to Almighty grace The tributes of your tongues. | 2. So strange, so boundless was the love That pitied dying men, The Father sent his equal Son To give him life again. | 3. Thy hands, dear Jesus, were not armed With a revenging rod: No hard commission to perform The vengeance of a God. | 4. But all was mercy, all was mild, And wrath forsook the throne, When Christ on the kind errand came, And brought salvation down. | 5. Here, sinners, you may heal your wounds, And wipe your sorrows dry; Trust in the mighty Savior's name, And you shall never die. | 6. See, dearest Lord, our willing souls Accept thine offered grace, We bless the great Redeemer's love, And give the Father praise. | |