Text:To us salvation now has come
Author:Paul Speratus, D. D.
Author:Dr. Henry Mills
Tune:LUTHER'S HYMN
Composer:Dr. Martin Luther

249. To us salvation now has come

1 To us salvation now has come,
God's wondrous grace revealing;
Works never can avert our doom,
They have no power of healing.
Faith looks to God's beloved Son,
Who has for us deliv'rance won,
He is our great Redeemer!

2 What God's most holy precept claims
No child of Adam renders;
But from the throne dread vengeance flames,
And speaks the curse in thunders.
The flesh ne'er prompts those pure desires
That 'bove all else the Law requires:
Relief by Law is hopeless!

3 But all the Law must be fulfilled,
Or we must sink despairing;
Then came the Son—-so God had willed,--
Our human nature sharing,
Who for us all the Law obeyed,
And thus His Father's vengeance stayed,
Which over us impended.

4 Now to the God of matchless grace,
To Father, Son, and Spirit,
We lift our highest songs of praise,
All praise His favors merit.
All He has said He will perform,
And save us by His mighty arm, --
His worthy name be hallowed!

Text Information
First Line: To us salvation now has come
Author: Paul Speratus, D. D. (1524)
Author: Dr. Henry Mills (1845)
Meter: No. 20
Language: English; Latin
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: The Catechism: Justification; Sunday after Christmas; Sunday after New Year's (3 more...)
Notes: Alternate Tune: DECIUS, #145; From the German text: Es ist das Heil uns kommen her
Tune Information
Name: LUTHER'S HYMN
Composer: Dr. Martin Luther (1523)
Meter: No. 20
Key: G Major



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