4 Come, ye saints, look here and wonder:
Come, behold what love could do:
Gaze upon the victim yonder:
Jesus suffered thus for you;
Bid adieu to low desire:
Here let earthly love expire.
5. 6. Jesus a Man of Sorrows.
ALL ye that pass by,
To Jesus draw nigh;
To you is it nothing that Jesus should die?
Our ransom and peace,
Come see ifthere ever was sorrow like his.
The Lord in the day
Of vengeance did lay
Our sins on the lamb, and he bore them
He dies to atone
For sins not his own;
The Father hath punish'd for us his dear
With joy we approve
The plan of his love;
A wonder below, and a wonder above!
When time is no more
We still shall adore
That ocean of love, without bottom or
shore.
8. 8. 7. Christ's Humiliation. ANON.
Man of griefs, despis'd, rejected!
Wounds his form disfiguring;
Marr'd his visage more than any ;
For he bears the sins of many,
All our sorrows carrying.
-2 No deceit his mouth had spoken,
Blameless, he no law had broken,
Yet was number'd with the worst:
For, because the Lord would grieve him,
Ye, who saw it, did believe him
For his own offences curst.
3 But, while him your thoughts accused;
He for us alone was bruised;
Yea, for us the victim bled!
With his stripes our wounds are cured;
By his pains our peace secured,
Purchas'd with the blood he shed.
4 Death our portion, slaves in spirit,
He redeem'd us by his merit,
To a glorious liberty.
Dearly first his goodness bought us,
Truth and love then sweetly taught us,
Truth and love have made us free.
5 Glory be to him who gave us,—
Freely gave, his Son to save us;
Glory to the Son who came!
Honour, blessing, adoration,
Ever, from the whole creation,
Be to God, and to the Lamb.
8.7. Christ's agony on the Cross.
KELLY
TRICKEN, smitten, and afflicted,"
See him dying on the tree!
'Tis the Christ by man rejected!
Yes, my soul, 'tis he! 'tis he!
'Tis the long expected prophet,
David's son, yet David's Lord;
Proofs I see sufficient of it:
"Tis a true and faithful word.
2 Tell me, ye who hear him groaning, Was there ever grief like his ? Friends thro' fear his cause disowning, Foes insulting his distress.
Many hands were rais'd to wound him,
None would interpose to save;
But the awful stroke that found him,
Was the stroke that justice gave.
3 Ye who think of sin but lightly,
Nor suppose the evil great;
Here may view its nature rightly,
Here its guilt may estimate:
Mark the sacrifice appointed!
See who bears the awful load!
'Tis the WORD, the LORD'S ANOINTED,
Son of man, and Son of God.
4 Here we have a firm foundation:
Here's the refuge of the lost:
Christ's the rock of our salvation:
His the name of which we boast:
Lamb of God for sinners wounded
Sacrifice to cancel guilt!
None shall ever be confounded,
Who on him their hope have built.
'TIS finish'd! so the Saviour cry'd,
And meekly bow'd his head and
dy'd:
'Tis finish'd—yes, the race is run,
The battle fought, the victory won.
2. 'Tis finish'd-all that heav'n decreed,
And all the ancient prophets said,
Is now fulfill'd, as was design'd,
In me the Saviour of mankind.
3 'Tis finish'd-Aaron now no more
Must stain his robes with purple gore;
The sacred veil is rent in twain,
And Jewish rites no more remain.
4 'Tis finish'd-this my dying groan
Shall sins of ev'ry kind atone:
Millions shall be redeem'd from death,
By this my last expiring breath.
5 'Tis finish'd-heav'n is reconcil'd
And all the powers of darkness spoil'd:
Peace, love, and happiness again
Return, and dwell with sinful men.
6 'Tis finish'd-let the joyful sound
Be heard through all the nations round,
"Tis finish'd let the echo fly
Thro' heav'n and hell, thro' earth and sky..
4487 4. Salvation completed on Calvary.
HARK! the voice of love and mercy
Sounds aloud from Calvary!
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