{"id":165,"date":"2010-04-24T23:54:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T03:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=165"},"modified":"2010-04-25T08:50:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T12:50:32","slug":"debtor-to-mercy-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/04\/24\/debtor-to-mercy-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Debtor To Mercy Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denise and I are doing the offertory at church tomorrow &#8211; she&#8217;s playing, I&#8217;m singing.\u00a0 The song we&#8217;re doing is one of my favorite texts, and I referenced it in an <a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/03\/11\/the-palms-of-his-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post<\/a>.\u00a0 The words were written by Augustus Toplady in the late 1700&#8217;s &#8211; 1771 to be exact.\u00a0 The tune is by Bob Kauflin, and we first heard it done by Glad, and then on the Sovereign Grace Music CD Upward.\u00a0 The words are amazing, and the tune haunting.<\/p>\n<p>A debtor to mercy alone,<br \/>\nof covenant mercy I sing.<br \/>\nI come with your righteousness on,<br \/>\nmy humble off&#8217;ring to bring.<br \/>\nThe judgements of your holy law<br \/>\nwith me can have nothing to do.<br \/>\nMy Savior&#8217;s obedience and blood<br \/>\nhide all my transgressions from view.<\/p>\n<p>The work which your goodness began,<br \/>\nthe arm of your strength will complete.<br \/>\nYour promise is yes and amen,<br \/>\nand never was forfeited yet.<br \/>\nThe future or things that are now,<br \/>\nno power below or above,<br \/>\ncan make you your purpose forego,<br \/>\nor sever my soul from your love.<\/p>\n<p>My name from the palms of your hands,<br \/>\neternity will not erase.<br \/>\nImpressed on your heart it remains<br \/>\nin marks of indelible grace.<br \/>\nYes I, to the end, will endure,<br \/>\nuntil I bow down at your throne.<br \/>\nForever and always secure,<br \/>\na debtor to mercy, alone.<\/p>\n<p><em>Augustus M Toplady (1771) and\u00a0 Bob Kauflin (1998)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denise and I are doing the offertory at church tomorrow &#8211; she&#8217;s playing, I&#8217;m singing.\u00a0 The song we&#8217;re doing is one of my favorite texts, and I referenced it in an earlier post.\u00a0 The words were written by Augustus Toplady in the late 1700&#8217;s &#8211; 1771 to be exact.\u00a0 The tune is by Bob Kauflin,&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/04\/24\/debtor-to-mercy-alone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymns","tag-a-debtor-to-mercy-alone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-2F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}