Salvation Unto Us Has Come

Salvation unto us has come

By God's free grace and favor.

Good works cannot avert our doom;

They help and save us never.

Faith looks to Jesus christ alone,

Who did for all the world atone;

He is the one redeemer.

What God does in his law demand

And none to him can render,

Brings wrath and woe on ev'ry hand

For man, the vile offender.

Our flesh has not those pure desires

The spirit of the law requires,

And lost is our condition.

It is a false, misleading dream

That God his law has given

That sinners can themselves redeem

And by their works gain heaven.

The law is but a mirror bright

To bring the inbred sin to light

That lurks within our nature.

Yet as the law must be fulfilled

Or we must die despairing,

Christ came and has God's anger stilled,

Our human nature sharing.

He has for us the law obeyed

And thus the father's vengeance stayed

Which over us impended.

Since christ has full atonement made

And brought to us salvation,

Each christian therefore may be glad

And build on this foundation.

Your grace alone, dear lord, I plead;

Your death is now my life indeed,

For you have paid my ransom.

All blessing, honor, thanks, and praise

To father, son, and spirit,

The God who saved us by his grace

All glory to his merit!

O triune God in heav'n above,

You have revealed your saving love;

Your blessed name be hallowed!