Cardiphonia

This popular text by Isaac Watts has been rehymned quite a few times recently and I thought I would post links to some of them.  It is a great song to use during the Lent Season, during a Good Friday Service, and to meditate on before Easter.

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Redeemer Presbyterian – Indy
mp3 | leadsheet

RUF – Indelible Grace
mp3 | leadsheet

Sojourn Church – Louisville
mp3 | leadsheet

Sovereign Grace Music – Bob Kauflin
mp3 | leadsheet

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Alas! and did my Savior bleed?
And did my Sovereign die?
Would he devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?

Was it for crimes that I had done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!

Well might the sun in darkness hide,
And shut his glories in,
When God, the mighty Maker, died
For man, the creature’s sin.

Thus might I hide my blushing face,
While his dear cross appears;
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt my eyes to tears.

But drops of grief can ne’er repay
The debt of love I owe;
Here, Lord, I give myself away;
‘Tis all that I can do.

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Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707