197 104th Augustus Toplady
Invincible Grace. Ps. 110. 3; Tit. 3. 5
1
How mighty thou art, O Lord, to convert;
 
Thou only couldst conquer so stubborn a heart,
 
For thy love to lost man alone could constrain
 
So stiff-necked a rebel to love thee again.
2
Through thee I embrace the ransoming grace,
 
Of him who has suffered and died in my place,
 
Though I strove to withstand the force of thy hand,
 
Thy Spirit would conquer, and I was constrained.
3
In vain I withstood, and fled from my God,
 
For mercy would save me through Jesus’s blood.
 
I felt it applied, and I joyfully cried,
 
Me, me thou hast loved, and for me thou hast died.
4
For sinners like me thy mercy is free,
 
Who hunger and thirst for redemption by thee.
 
Lord, gather in more; make this the glad hour;
 
Compel them to yield in the day of thy power.