How hath he loved us? How?

Verse 1

How has he loved us? How? Can Earth or Heaven tell? While prostrate at that cross we bow, His love’s effects we feel: The virtue of that sign Our gasping souls receive, And ransomed by the death divine We shall forever live.

Verse 2

No angel from his throne He sent the world to save, But God his one, beloved Son To desperate sinners gave: Who in his bosom lay, He on his foes bestowed The Lamb who bore our sins away And washed us in his blood.

Verse 3

Jehovah’s name is Love, And love his heart inclined To send his Offspring from above, A Victim for mankind: ’Twas found in him alone Salvation’s wondrous cause, Who freely gave his only Son To save us by a cross.

Verse 4

You did not send your Son To aggravate our guilt, But for the sins of Earth t’ atone His precious blood was spilt: Not as our Judge he came, But our Redeemer kind, That all believing in his name May life and pardon find.