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Godly sorrow at the cross.

ALAS! and did my Saviour bleed!

And did my Sov'reign die?

Would he devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I

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2 Was it for crimes that I have done,
He groan'd upon the tree!
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!"

3 Well might the sun in darkness hide, And shut his glories in,

When Christ, the mighty Maker, died,
For man, the creature's sin.

4 Thus might I hide my blushing face
While his dear cross appears;
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt mine eyes to tears.

5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe:

Here, Lord, I give myself away,-
Tis all that I can do.

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Glory to the dying Lamb.

ALL glory to the dying Lamb,
And never-ceasing praise,

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While angels live to know thy name,
Or men to feel thy grace.

With this cold stony heart of mine,

Jesus, to thee I flee;

And to thy grace my soul resign,
To be renew'd by thee.
30 may the uncorrupted seed
Abide and reign within;

And thy life-giving word forbid
My new-born soul to sin.

2 Thus, Lord, while we remember thee,
We blest and pious grow;

By hymns of praise we learn to be
Triumphant here below.

3 On this glad day a brighter scene
Of glory was display'd,

By the eternal Word, than when
This universe was made.

4 He rises, who mankind has bought,
With grief and pain extreme:

'Twas great to speak the world from naught; "Twas greater to redeem.

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Paradise opened.

HE Sun of righteousness appears,
To set in blood no more;

Adore the Scatt'rer of your fears,
Your rising Sun adore.

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2 The saints, when he resign'd his breath,
Unclosed their sleeping eyes;

He breaks again the bands of death,-
Again the dead arise.

8 Alone the dreadful race he ran,-
Alone the wine-press trod;

He dies and suffers as a man,

He rises as a God.

4 In vain the stone, the watch, the seal,

Forbid an early rise

To Him, who breaks the gates of hell,

And opens Paradise.

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Joy from the certainty of His resurrection.

HE Lord is risen indeed;

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The grave hath lost its prey;

With him shall rise the ransom'd seed
To reign in endless day.