Old Song for the Day

I greatly enjoy really old hymns. Usually I enjoy them when they are reworked with contemporary music. That way you get the style of modern worship with the language and depth of old music. This song struck me today and is one I wish I could place into a modern context musically.

How Vast the Benefits Divine

Words: Augustus Toplady (1774)

How vast the benefits divine which we in Christ possess!
We are redeemed from guilt and shame and called to holiness.
But not for works which we have done, or shall hereafter do,
Hath God decreed on sinful men salvation to bestow.

The glory, Lord, from first to last, is due to Thee alone;
Aught to ourselves we dare not take, or rob Thee of Thy crown.
Our glorious Surety undertook to satisfy for man,
And grace was given us in Him before the world began.

This is Thy will, that in Thy love we ever should abide;
That earth and hell should not prevail to turn Thy Word aside.
Not one of all the chosen race but shall to Heav’n attain,
Partake on earth the purposed grace and then with Jesus reign.