Maltese Cross Quilt Block and a Song for Sunday

Maltese Cross Quilt Block Pattern Information

 

And Can It Be That I Should Gain?

 

And can it be that I should gain

An interest in the Savior's blood?

Died He for me, who caused His pain?

For me, who Him to death pursued?

Amazing love!  How can it be

That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

 

Chorus:

Amazing love!  How can it be

That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

 

He left his Father's throne above,

So free, so infinite His grace!

Emptied Himself of all but love,

And bled for Adam's helpless race!

'Tis mercy all, immense and free,

For, O my God, it found out out me.

 

No condemnation now I dread:

Jesus, and all in Him, is mine!

Alive in Him, my living Head,

And clothed in righteousness divine,

Bold I approach the eternal throne

And claim the crown, through Christ my own.

 

Long my imprisoned spirit lay

Fast bound in sin and nature's night.

Thine eye diffused a quick'ning ray:

I woke - the dungeon flamed with light!

My chains fell off, my heart was free,

I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.

 

Words by Charles Wesley (1707-1788), 1738

 

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