O God of Grace and Righteousness from Psalm 4 Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

PARDONING GRACE (L.M.) Mitch Cervinka* 2000 Score

O God of grace and right-eous-ness,
   Hear and at-tend when I com-plain;
Thou hast en-larged me in dis-tress,
   Bow down a gra-cious ear a-gain.

Ye sons of men, in vain ye try
   To turn my glo-ry in-to shame;
How long will scof-fers love to lie,
   And dare re-proach my Sav-iour's Name?

Know that the Lord di-vides His saints
   From all the tribes of men be-side
He hears the cry of pen-i-tents
   For the dear sake of Christ who died.

When our o-be-dient hands have done
   A thou-sand works of right-eous-ness,
We put our trust in God a-lone,
   And glo-ry in His pard-oning grace.

Let the un-think-ing man-y say,
   Who will be-stow some earth-ly good?
But, Lord, Thy light and love we pray,
   Our souls de-sire this heav-enly food.

Then shall my cheer-ful powers re-joice
   At grace and fav-ours so di-vine;
Nor will I change my hap-py choice,
   For all their corn, and all their wine.

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*Music: Composed 2000 by Mitch Cervinka.
Donated to the Public Domain for the unrestricted use of Christ's church.