Who maketh thee to differ from another

The following hymn by Baptist minister John Fawcett appears in Hymns Adapted to the Circumstances of Public Worship and Private Devotion (Leeds: G. Wright and Son, 1782).

Hymn XIV. L. M.

Who maketh thee to differ from another. I Cor. iv. 7.

1. When my dark soul, once dead in sin,

Was rouz’d at length by grace divine,

In deep astonishment, I saw,

The terrors of a broken law.

2. No longer wrapt in self-deceit,

I then perceiv’d my guilt was great;

My danger I began to view,

And grace reveal’d the refuge too.

3. The willing slave of sin no more;

My dreadful bondage I deplore;

And with a broken spirit cry,

O mercy! save me, or I die!

4. Some rays of hope pervade the gloom,

Since Jesus bids the weary come;

I humbly trust in him, and see

He shed his precious blood for me.

5. Sweet Jesus, I would ever cleave

To thee, and on the fulness live;

And my own righteousness disclaim;

For all I have is guilt and shame.

6. Thy mighty arm the work hath wrought;

My soul abhors a boasting thought;

Before thy feet I humbly own,

The praise is due to grace alone.

7. Thy sov’reign wisdom form’d the plan,

Thy mercy first the work began;

Grace will complete the great design,

And endless glory shall be thine.