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Amazing Love
Old-Time, Shape-Note Gospel by Thomas Franklin Sanders;
ARTIST: BF White's Sacred Harp- Melody by Thomas Franklin Sanders- 1902
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1902; First Recorded
RECORDING INFO: Amazing Love 482
OTHER NAMES: "When Jesus for His people died"
SOURCES: BF White's Sacred Harp
NOTES: "Amazing Love 482" Meter: Long Meter (8,8,8,8) is a traditional song collected by BF White with a tune by Thomas Franklin Sanders. Appears in the 1902 Cooper revision of Sacred Harp.
AMAZING LOVE- Sacred Harp
When Jesus for His people died,
The holy law was satisfied;
Its awful penalties He bore;
It can command nor curse no more.
Chorus: Amazing love how rich how free—
That Christ should die for such as we;
From hence the holiest duties flow,
Of saints above and saints below.
He having suffered in their stead,
The law in cov'nant form is dead;
He rules them with a gentle sway,
And they with sweet delight obey.
(Chorus)
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