7681. Who Shall the Lord's Elect Condemn?

1. Who shall the Lord’s elect condemn?
’Tis God that justifies their souls;
And mercy, like a mighty stream,
O’er all their sins divinely rolls.

2. Who shall adjudge the saints to hell?
’Tis Christ that suffered in their stead;
And, the salvation to fulfill,
Behold Him rising from the dead!

3. He lives! He lives and sits above,
For ever interceding there:
Who shall divide us from His love?
Or what should tempt us to despair?

4. Shall persecution, or distress,
Famine, or sword, or nakedness?
He that hath loved us bears us through,
And makes us more than conquerors too.

5. Faith hath an overcoming power;
It triumphs in the dying hour:
Christ is our life, our joy, our hope,
Nor can we sink with such a prop.

6. Not all that men on earth can do,
Nor powers on high, nor powers below,
Shall cause His mercy to remove,
Or wean our hearts from Christ our love.

Text Information
First Line: Who shall the Lord's elect condemn?
Title: Who Shall the Lord's Elect Condemn?
Author: Isaac Watts (1707)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-1709
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tunes: BAPTISM, Peter C. Lutkin, 1858-1931; DEUS TUORUM MILITUM, Grenoble Antiphoner, 1753; ERHALT UNS, HERR, Geistliche Lieder (Wittenberg, Germany: 1543); ERNAN, Lowell Mason, 1850
Tune Information
Name: CROMER
Composer: John A. Lloyd, Sr., 1815-1874
Meter: LM
Incipit: 51364 21712 35143
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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