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Salvation Unto Us is Come, translation from the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary

Salvation unto us is come
By God’s free grace and favor
Good works can not avert our doom,
They help and save us never;
Faith looks to Jesus Christ alone,
Who did for all the world atone;
He is our one Redeemer.

What God doth in His law demand,
No man to Him can render:
Before this Judge all guilty stand;
His Law speaks curse in thunder.
The Law demands a perfect heart;
We were defiled in every part,
And lost was our condition.

False dreams deluded minds did fill,
That God His Law had given,
As if to Him we could at will
Earn grace and enter heaven.
The Law is but a mirror bright
To bring the inbred sin to sight
That lurks within our nature.

4. From sin our flesh could not abstain,
Sin held its sway unceasing;
The task was useless and in vain,
Our guilt was e'er increasing.
None can remove sin's poisoned dart
Or purify our guilty heart,
So deep is our corruption.

Still all the law fulfilled must be,
Else we were lost forever,
Then God His Son sent down that He
Might us from doom deliver;
He all the law for us fulfilled
And thus His Father's anger stilled
Which over us impended.

6. As Christ hath full atonement made,
And brought to us salvation,
So may each Christian now be glad
And build on this foundation:
Thy grace alone, dear Lord, I plead,
Thy death my life now is indeed,
For Thou hast paid my ransom.

7. Not doubting this, I trust in Thee,
Your word cannot be broken;
Thou all dost call, “Come unto Me!”
No falsehood hast Thou spoken.
“He who believes and is baptized,
He shall be saved.” say’st Thou, O Christ,
And he shall never perish.

The just is he- and he alone-
Who by this faith is living,
The faith that by good works is shown,
To God the glory giving;
Faith gives the peace with God above,
But thou thy neighbour, too, must love,
If thou art new created.

The Law reveals the guilt of sin,
And makes men conscience-stricken;
The Gospel then doth enter in,
The sin-sick soul to quicken.
Come to the cross, look up and live,
The Law no peace to thee doth give,
Nor can its deeds bestow it.

10. Faith to the cross of Christ doth cling,
And rest in Him securely:
And forth from it good works must spring,
As fruits and tokens surely;
Still faith doth justify alone,
Works serve thy neighbour and make known
The faith that lives within thee.

11. Hope waits for the accepted hour
Til God give joy for mourning;
WhenHe displays His healing pow'r,
Thy signs to songs are turning.
Thy needs are known unto thy Lord,
And He is faithful to His Word,
This is our hope's foundation.

12. Though it may seem He hears thee not,
Count not thyself forsaken;
Thy wants are ne'er by Him forgot,
Let this thy hope awaken;
His word is sure, here is thy stay,
Though doubts may plague thee on thy way,
Let not thy faith be shaken.

13. All blessing, honor, thanks, and praise
To Father, Son, and Spirit,
The God that saved us by His grace,
All glory to His merit.
O Father in the heav'ns above
Thy work begun performs Thy love,
Thy worthy name be hallowed.

14. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done
In earth, as 'tis in heaven,
Keep us in life, by grace led on,
Forgiving and forgiven;
Save Thou us in temptation's hour,
And from all ills; Thine is the pow'r,
And all the glory, amen!