PRAISE FOR THE GOSPEL.

1 LORD, I ascribe it to thy grace,
And not to chance, as others do,
That I was born of Christian race,
And not a heathen or a Jew.
2 What would the ancient Jewish kings,
And Jewish prophets, once have given,
Could they have heard those ¢/orious things
Which Christ reveal’d and brought from heaven!
3 How glad the heathen would have been,
That worshipp’d idols, wood and stone,
If they the book of God had seen,
Or Jesus and his gospel known!
4 Then if this gospel I refuse,
How shall I e’er lift up mine eyes?
For all the Gentiles and the Jews
Against me will in judgment rise.