Cross and Comfort
Amazing Grace
- Words:
- John Newton, 1779. last verse author unknown, before 1829.
- Music:
- 'New Britain' James P. Carrell and David L. Clayton, 1831.
- Setting:
- Edwin Othello Excell, 1900.
- Metre:
- 8 6 8 6
- 1Amazing grace! How sweet the soundThat saved a wretch like me!I once was lost, but now am found;Was blind, but now I see.
- 2'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,And grace my fears relieved;How precious did that grace appearThe hour I first believed.
- 3Through many dangers, toils and snares,I have already come;'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,And grace will lead me home.
- 4The Lord has promised good to me,His Word my hope secures;He will my Shield and Portion be,As long as life endures.
- 5Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,And mortal life shall cease,I shall possess, within the veil,A life of joy and peace.
- 6The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,The sun forbear to shine;But God, Who called me here below,Shall be forever mine.
- 7When we've been there ten thousand years,Bright shining as the sun,We've no less days to sing God's praiseThan when we'd first begun.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1779, the words are in 1,805 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, New Britain, is in 928 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.