Deep in the everlasting mind

Deep in the everlasting mind
The great mysterious purpose lay,
Of choosing some from lost mankind,
Whose sins the Lamb should bear away.

Them, loved with an eternal love,
To grace and glory he ordained;
Gave them a throne which cannot move,
And chose them both to means and end.

In these he was resolved to make
The riches of his goodness known;
These he accepts for Jesus' sake,
And views them righteous in his Son.

No goodness God foresaw in his,
But what his grace decreed to give;
No comeliness in them there is
Which they did not from him receive.

Faith and repentance he bestows
On such as he designs to save;
From him their soul's obedience flows,
And he shall all the glory have.