Tune: Cruger
(\'Hail to the Lord\'s Anointed\')
1 Peter 2 v.5-10
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We are a priesthood royal
Christian believers all
A spiritual house we be
With Christ our Head we see
A peculiar people
Purchased by God to be
His own, to serve, to follow
And Him through Christ to know
We are a generation
Chosen from each nation
To show forth all His praises
Each voice a song raises
His virtues shown, His graces
His mercies each traces
We called from darkness unto
His marvellous light true
Once we were not a people
And not noticeable
But now we are the people
Of God, He did us call
One time we did not mercy
Obtain, did not Christ see
But now we have obtained sure
His mercy evermore
So we that house spiritual
A priesthood holy all
Spiritual sacrifices
Offered, each suffices
May they be acceptable
To God, on Him we call
Christ to us a precious stone
We worship Him alone