And Are We Wretches yet Alive?

Verse 1

And are we wretches yet alive?
And do we yet rebel?
’Tis boundless, ’tis amazing love
That bears us up from hell!

Verse 2

The burden of our weighty guilt
Would sink us down to flames,
And threatening vengeance rolls above
To crush our feeble frames.

Verse 3

Almighty goodness cries, “Forbear;”
And straight the thunder stays;
And dare we now provoke his wrath,
And weary out his grace?

Verse 4

Lord, we have long abus’d thy love,
Too long indulg’d our sin;
Our aching hearts e’en bleed to see
What rebels we have been.

Verse 5

No more, ye lusts, shall ye command,
No more will we obey;
Stretch out, O God, thy conquering hand,
And drive thy foes away.