Ransom

Top Text Author Text Info Timeline Page Scans Instances

I come, the great Redeemer cries, A year of freedom to declare

Author: Thomas Gibbons
Published in 34 hymnals

Representative Text

1 "I come," the great Redeemer cries,
"A year of freedom to declare,
From debts and bondage to discharge,
And Jews and Greeks the grace shall share:

2 A day of vengeance I proclaim,
But not on man the storm shall fall,
On me its thunder shall descend,
My strength, my love sustain them all."

3 Stupendous favour! matchless grace!
Jesus has di'd that we might live:
Not worlds below, or worlds above
Could so divine a ransom give.

4 To him, who lov'd our ruin'd race,
And for our lives laid down his own,
Let songs of joyful praises rise,
Sublime, eternal as his throne.

Source: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: selected and original, designed for the use of the Church Universal in public and private devotion #LXXI

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: Thomas Gibbons

Gibbons, Thomas, was born at Beak, near Newmarket, May 31, 1720; educated by Dr. Taylor, at Deptford; ordained in 1742, as assistant to the Rev. Mr. Bures, at Silver Street Chapel, London; and in 1743 became minister of the Independent Church, at Haberdashers' Hall, where he remained till his death, Feb. 22, 1785. In addition to his ministerial office he became, in 1754, tutor of the Dissenting Academy at Mile End, London; and, in 1759, Sunday evening lecturer at Monkwell Street. In 1760 the College at New Jersey, U.S., gave him the degree of M.A. and in 1764 that of Aberdeen the degree of D.D. His prose works were (1) Calvinism and Nonconformity defended, 1740; (2) Sermons on various subjects, 1762; (3) Rhetoric, 1767; (4) Female Worthies,… Go to person page >

^ top

First Line:	I come, the great Redeemer cries, A year of freedom to declare
Title:	Ransom
Author:	Thomas Gibbons
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain