They were astonished.
Matthew 13:54
Words: Samuel Medley, 1789. Verses 1 & 3 are from a 6-stanza work in Medley’s Hymns. The author of verse 2 is unknown.
Music: Hummel Heinrich C. Zeuner, 1832 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good picture of Zeuner (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
O what amazing words of grace
Are in the Gospel found!
Suited to every sinner’s case
Who knows the joyful sound.
Poor, sinful, thirsty, fainting souls
Are freely welcome here;
Salvation, like a river, rolls
Abundant, free and clear.
Come, then, with all your wants and wounds;
Your every burden bring;
Here love, unchanging love, abounds,
A deep, celestial spring.