From the Gadsby Hymnal

Ah! but for free and sovereign grace,

I still had lived estranged from God,

Till hell had proved the destined place

Of my deserved but dread abode.

But O, amazed, I see the hand

That stopped me in my wild career;

A miracle of grace I stand;

The Lord has taught by heart to fear.

To fear his name, to trust his grace,

To learn his will be my employ;

Till I shall see him face to face,

Himself my heaven, himself my joy.

Henry Paice (1798)