And Can It Be

By Charles Wesley, Thomas Campbell

© Public Domain

 

E               B         D            A

And can it be that I should gain

      E          F#m   C#m         B

An interest in the Saviour’s blood

E                 B            D                A

Died he for me, who caused His pain

      F#m       E           B           E

For me who Him to death persued

 

   A          E/G#        F#m  C#m

Amazing love, how can it be

         A           E/G#            F#m     B

That you, my God, should die for me

   A          E/G#        F#m  C#m

Amazing love, how can it be

         A           E/G#            F#m  B    E

That you, my God, should die     for me

 

He left His Father's throne above

So free, so infinite His grace

Emptied Himself of all but love

And bled for Adam's helpless race

'Tis mercy all, immense and free

For, O my God it found out me

 

No condemnation now I dread

Jesus, and all in Him, is mine

Alive in Him my living Head

And clothed in righteousness divine

Bold I approach the eternal throne

And claim the crown, through Christ my own

 

'Tis mystery all! The Immortal dies

Who can explore His strange design

In vain the first born seraph tries

To sound the depths of love divine

'Tis mercy all! Let earth adore

Let angel minds inquire no more.

 

Long my imprisoned Spirit lay

Fast bound in sin and nature's night

Thine eye diffused a quickening ray

I woke, the dungeon flamed with light

My chains fell off, my heart was free

I rose, went forth and followed Thee

 

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