Part 28 (2/2)

4 ”With rage they persecute the man ”That groans beneath thy wound, ”While for a sacrifice I pour ”My life upon the ground.

5 ”They tread my honour to the dust, ”And laugh when I complain ”Their sharp insulting slanders add ”Fresh anguish to my pain.

6 ”All my reproach is known to thee, ”The scandal and the shame; ”Reproach has broke my bleeding heart, ”And lies defil'd my Name.

7 ”I look'd for pity, but in vain; ”My kindred are my grief!

”I ask my friends for comfort round, ”But meet with no relief.

8 ”With vinegar they mock my thirst; ”They give me gall for food; ”And sporting with my dying groans, ”They triumph in my blood.

9 ”s.h.i.+ne into my distressed soul, ”Let thy compa.s.sion save; ”And tho' my flesh sink down to death, ”Redeem it from the grave.

10 ”I shall arise to praise thy Name, ”Shall reign in worlds unknown; ”And thy salvation, O my G.o.d, ”Shall seat me on thy throne.”

Psalm 69:3. Third Part. C. M.

Christ's obedience and death; or, G.o.d glorified and sinners saved.

1 Father, I sing thy wondrous grace, I bless my Saviour's Name, He bought salvation for the poor, And bore the sinner's shame.

2 His deep distress has rais'd us high, His duty and his zeal Fulfill'd the law which mortals broke, And finish'd all thy will.

3 His dying groans, his living songs Shall better please my G.o.d Than harp or trumpet's solemn sound, Than goats' or bullocks' blood.

4 This shall his humble followers see, And set their hearts at rest; They by his death draw near to thee, And live for ever blest.

5 Let heaven, and all that dwell on high, To G.o.d their voices raise, While lands and seas a.s.sist the sky, And join t' advance the praise.

6 Zion is thine, most holy G.o.d; Thy Son shall bless her gates; And glory purchas'd by his blood For thine own Israel waits.

Psalm 69:4. First Part. L. M.

Christ's pa.s.sion, and sinners' salvation.

1 Deep in our hearts let us record The deeper sorrows of our Lord; Behold the rising billows roll To overwhelm his holy soul.

2 In long complaints he spends his breath, While hosts of h.e.l.l, and powers of death, And all the sons of malice join To execute their curst design.

3 Yet, gracious G.o.d, thy power and love Has made the curse a blessing prove; Those dreadful sufferings of thy Son Aton'd for sins which we had done.

4 The pangs of our expiring Lord The honours of thy law restor'd; His sorrows made thy justice known, And paid for follies not his own.

6 O for his sake our guilt forgive, And let the mourning sinner live; The Lord will hear us in his Name, Nor shall our hope be turn'd to shame.

Psalm 69:5. 7 &c. Second Part. L. M.

Christ's sufferings and zeal.

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