The Stennetts of England - Joseph Stennett - Hymn Poems

You that the holy Jesus love

You that the holy Jesus love,
   Give honour to his name;
The great achievements of his grace
   In thankful verse proclaim.

Tho what your highest thoughts surmounts
   Can never be exprest;
Yet something of it you may tell,
   And wonder out the rest.

Remember all his mighty deeds,
   His sorrows all review;
How he abas'd his glorious self,
   To bleed and die for you.

Remember all the shame and scorn,
   The vinegar and gall,
The gaping wounds thro which he pour'd
   His vital juices all.

His sorrows, as his virtues, were
   Innumerable found;
Troubles from earth, from heaven and hell,
   His spotless soul surround,

Crucify'd by the worst of men,
   Forsaken by the best;
With th' endless number of our sins,
   Sin's mighty weight oppress'd.

He felt the curses of the law,
   His father's wrath sustain'd
Endur'd the cruel shock of all
   The powers of hell unchain'd.

But after all victoricus prov'd,
   In triumph did ascend,
And now prepares us crowns and thrones,
   And joys that ne'er shall end.

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