THE SYSTEM OF LOVE

From a heart rich with mercy, grace and love

The Father's purposes for us display

His grand desire to have before His face

A glorious, loved and loving company.

Thus through unbounded grace His own Son came

To save us, and, more preciously, to lead

Those justified - and powerful in His Name -

Up to the Father as a holy seed.

And in the Father's presence we can be

Not only known as sons but cause to feel

That since the Son has died to set us free

Our sonship is not nominal, but real.

For grace gives, crowning all that mercy starts,

The Spirit of adoption in our hearts.