1 WHO is so great a God as ours, So near with His redeeming powers, So ready at His creature’s cry To send deliverance from the sky, To turn aside the ills we dread, And all our largest hopes exceed! 2 Thou dost, in answer to our prayer, A death-devoted victim spare: Thou hast not, Lord, in wrath removed A child too tenderly beloved, But still Thine eye with pity sees His parents’ life wrapp’d up in his. 3 Thy pity heard our softest tears, And scatter’d all our