{"id":279,"date":"2010-06-03T19:47:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T23:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-06-03T19:47:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T23:47:20","slug":"pardon-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/06\/03\/pardon-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a great song this is by Samuel Davies, president of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton.<\/p>\n<p>GREAT God of wonders! all Thy ways<br \/>\nAre matchless, God-like, and divine;<br \/>\nBut the fair glories of Thy grace<br \/>\nMore God-like and unrivall&#8217;d shine:<br \/>\nWho is a pardoning God like Thee?<br \/>\nOr who has grace so rich and free?<\/p>\n<p>Crimes of such horror to forgive,<br \/>\nSuch guilty, daring worms to spare;<br \/>\nThis is Thy grand prerogative,<br \/>\nAnd none shall in the honour share:<br \/>\nWho is a pardoning God like Thee?<br \/>\nOr who has grace so rich and free?<\/p>\n<p>In wonder lost, with trembling joy<br \/>\nWe take the pardon of our God:<br \/>\nPardon for crimes of deepest dye;<br \/>\nA pardon bought with Jesus&#8217; blood:<br \/>\nWho is a pardoning God like Thee?<br \/>\nOr who has grace so rich and free?<\/p>\n<p>Oh may this strange, this matchless grace<br \/>\nThis God-like miracle of love,<br \/>\nFill the wide earth with grateful praise,<br \/>\nAnd all th&#8217; angelic choirs above:<br \/>\nWho is a pardoning God like Thee?<br \/>\nOr who has grace so rich and free?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>President (Samuel) Davies, published posthumously in 1769<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>from C H Spurgeon\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graceandtruthbooks.com\/product\/our-own-hymn-book-spurgeons-metropolitan-tabernacle-hymn-book\" target=\"_blank\">Our Own Hymn-Book<\/a> #202<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great song this is by Samuel Davies, president of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton. GREAT God of wonders! all Thy ways Are matchless, God-like, and divine; But the fair glories of Thy grace More God-like and unrivall&#8217;d shine: Who is a pardoning God like Thee? Or who has grace&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/06\/03\/pardon-me\/\" 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":[8,98],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymns","tag-grace","tag-pardon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-4v","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}