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How sweet and wondrous is the place
With Christ within the doors
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores

While all our hearts and all our songs
Join to admire the feast
Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,
"Lord, why was I a guest?"

Chorus:
We'll praise our risen Lord
While at His feast we sit
His griefs a hallowed theme afford
For sweetest music fit

"Why was I made to hear Thy voice,
And enter while there's room
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?"

'Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly forced us in
Else we had still refused to taste
And perished in our sin

Chorus:
Such torments He endured
As none e'er felt before
That joy and bliss might be secured
To us forevermore

Pity the nations, O our God!
Constrain the earth to come
Send Thy victorious Word abroad
And bring the strangers home

We long to, with one voice and soul,
Sing Thy redeeming grace
For Thou hast borne our sin in full
To save Thy chosen race

Chorus:
Stretched on the cruel tree,
He bled and groaned and cried
And in a mortal agony
Was left alone to die

Chorus:
Then up to Heaven He rose
That we might with Him go
Where love and praises have no end
Where joys no changes know

credits

from That They May Live, released September 29, 2012
Words: Isaac Watts and Joseph Stennett, 1709
Music: Randy Ferreiro, 2010

Randy Ferreiro: vocals, acoustic guitar
Drew Pearson: vocals
Laura Fairbrook: vocals
Evan Dunn: cajon
Ben Swarner: bass

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Seattle Hymn Project Seattle, Washington

A collaborative music project that works with local songwriters to record and share music for the edification of the church.

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