Mighty GOD, ascended LORD, "One of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and forthwith came thereout blood and water." 59. Rock of Ages! cleft for me, Save from wrath, and make me pure. "Enter not into judgment with Thy servant, O LORD; for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified." 60. O LORD! turn not Thy face away From us who lie prostrate, Before Thy mercy's gate; Which Thou dost open wide to those O shut it not against us, LORD! Call us not to a strict account, How we have lived here; For then we know right well, O LORD! O LORD, we need not to repeat Mercy, good LORD, mercy we ask, For mercy, LORD, is all our suit, "God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, by Whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." 61. WHEN I survey the wondrous Cross, On which the Prince of Glory died, Save in the death of CHRIST my GOD! See from His head, His hands, His feet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown? Demands my soul, my life, my all. "He gave up the ghost." 62. O'ERWHELMED in depths of woe, Hangs the Redeemer of mankind, See how the nails those hands And feet so tender rend; See! down His face, and neck, and breast Hark! with what awful cry His Spirit takes its flight; That cry, it pierced His mother's heart, Earth hears, and to its base Rocks wildly to and fro; Tombs burst, seas, rivers, mountains quake; The sun withdraws his light; The mid-day heavens grow pale; Shall man alone be mute ? Come, youth and hoary hairs! Come! fall before His Cross, Who shed for us His Blood; Who died the Victim of pure love, To make us sons of GOD. JESU! all praise to Thee, Our joy and endless rest! Be Thou our guide while pilgrims here, The Fifth Sunday in Lent, OTHERWISE CALLED PASSION SUNDAY. "Remember that I stood before Thee to speak good for them, and to turn away Thy wrath from them." 63. THE Royal Banners forward go, The Cross shines forth in mystic glow; Where deep for us the spear was dyed, To Thee, Eternal Three in One, "And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son." "And they took JESUS, and led Him away. And He, bear ing His Cross, went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha, where they crucified Him." 64. HIS trial o'er and now beneath His own Cross faintly bending, JESUS, true Isaac, to His death Is wearily ascending. And now, His hands and feet pierced through, Upon the Cross they raise Him, Where even now, in distant view, The eye of faith surveys Him. O wondrous love, which GOD, most high, His sinless SON He gave to die, That sinners might not perish. Our sin's pollution to remove, Yes! 'tis the Cross that breaks the rod And makes a league 'twixt man and GOD, O praise the FATHER, praise the SON, And HOLY GHOST, through Whom alone "It is finished." 65. SEE the destined day arise; JESU! who but Thou had borne, Who but Thou had dared to drain, Thorns, and Nails, and piercing Spear? Of the finish'd Sacrifice. Holy JESU! grant us grace All our trust for life renew'd, Pardoned sin, and promised good. When this hymn is sung on Good Friday, the following words may be introduced between each verse: "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto My sorrow.' |