The People of God

lyricist: Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
Composer: William Croft, 1708

The peo­ple of God

Jehovah we praise

As bought by His blood

And saved by His grace;

Who dai­ly de­liv­ers

And ran­soms His own

And wa­ters with riv­ers

Of life from His throne.

Redeemed from the foe

We Je­sus pro­claim

And tri­umph to know

The pow­er of His name.

Preserved from all ev­il

Through God the most high

The world

and the dev­il

And sin we de­fy.

Much more than our sin

His grace doth abound;

His king­dom with­in

Our bo­som is found:

His blood’s ap­pli­ca­tion

The bless­ing im­parts

The in­ward sal­va­tion

And hal­lows our hearts.

Triumphing we go

To tri­umph again

Till death

the last foe

By Je­sus is slain;

His death shall re­lease us

Called out of our graves

To wit­ness that Je­sus

Eternally saves.

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