Free Salvation

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Jesus is our great salvation

Author: John Adams
Tune: CAN I LEAVE YOU?
Published in 28 hymnals

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1 Jesus is our great salvation,
Worthy of our best esteem;
He has saved his favourite nation;
Join to sing aloud of him.
He has saved us!
Christ alone could us redeem.

2 When involved in sin and ruin,
And no helper there was found,
Jesus our distress was viewing;
Grace did more than sin abound.
He has called us,
With salvation in the sound.

3 [Let us never, Lord, forget thee;
Make us walk as children here.
We will give thee all the glory
Of that love that brought us near.
Bid us praise thee,
And rejoice with holy fear.]

4 Free election, known by calling,
Is a privilege divine;
Saints are kept from final falling;
All the glory, Lord, be thine!
All the glory,
All the glory, Lord, is thine!

Source: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #205

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Author: John Adams

Adams, John. (Northampton, England 1751-May 15, 1835, Northampton). Baptist. Apprenticed to an iron monger. At age eighteen, united with Baptist church in Northampton of which John Collett Ryland was pastor. Later excluded from the church because of a change of view. After retiring from business, he moved his residence several times bur subsequently returned to Northampton, where he died. His first hymns were published in the Gospel Magazine in 1776. One hymn ascribed to "S. P. R." in Service of Song but written by Adams begins: Jesus is our great salvation, Worthy of our best esteem! This hymn appearing also in Rippon's Selection of 1813 concerns salvation by election as does one other hymn: Sons we are through God's election.… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Jesus is our great salvation
Title:	Free Salvation
Author:	John Adams
Meter:	8.7.8.7.4.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

2 Timothy 1:9
(hymns)

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Notes

Jesus is our great salvation. J. Adams. [Election.] Published in the Gospel Magazine, May, 1776, in 6 stanza of 6 lines, and signed "J. A." In 1787 it was given in Rippon's Baptist Selection, No. 108, in 5 stanzas, and with the author's name. After J. Adams (q.v.) was expelled from the Baptist denomination, the hymn was continued in Rippon, but the author's name was withdrawn. The hymn is found in several modern hymn-books of a marked Calvinistic type, as Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory, 1872, &c. This and other hymns by Adams were identified by his son, the Rev. S. Adams, sometime Vicar of Thornton, Leicestershire, (S. MSS.)

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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