Explore "Luke 23: 39-–-43" by John Newton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I: Sovereign grace has power alone / To subdue a heart of stone; / And the moment grace is felt, / Then the hardest heart will melt.
II: When our Lord was crucified / Two transgressors with him died!
One, with vile blaspheming tongue, / Scoff'd at Jesus as he hung.
III: Thus he spent his wicked breath / In the very jaws of death; / Perish'd, as too many do, / With the Saviour in his view.
IV: But the other, touch'd with grace, / Saw the danger of his case --
Faith received to own the Lord, / Whom the scribes and priests abhorr'd.
V: "Lord," he pray'd, "remember me / When in glory thou shalt be!"
"Soon with me," the Lord replies, / "Thou shalt rest in paradise."
VI: This was wondrous grace indeed, / Grace vouchsafed in time of need!
Sinners, trust in Jesus' name, / You shall find him still the same.
VII: But beware of unbelief, / Think upon the harden'd thief; / If the gospel you disdain, / Christ to you will die in vain.