Redeeming Love - Verses 11ÔÇô20

XI.

What blessings on a thankless race,
His bounteous hand bestow'd?
And from his tongue what wonderous grace,
What rich instruction flow'd?

XII.

The dumb, the deaf, the lame, the blind
Consess'd his healing power;
Disease and death their prey resign'd,
And grief complain'd no more.

XIII.

Infernal legions trembling fled,
Aw'd by his powerful word:
And winds and seas his voice obey'd,
And own'd their sovereign Lord.

XIV.

But man, vile man, his love abus'd,
Blind to the noblest good;
Blasphem'd his power, his word refus'd,
And sought his sacred blood.

XV.

Still his unwearied love pursu'd
Salvation's glorious plan;
And firm th' approaching horrors view'd,
Deserv'd by guilty man.

XVI.

What pain, what soul-oppressing pain,
The great Redeemer bore;
While bloody sweat, like drops of rain,
Distill'd from every pore!

XVII.

And ere the dreadful storm descends
Full on his guiltless head,
See him by his familiar friends
Deserted and betray'd!

XVIII.

While ruffian bands the Lord surround,
Relentless, murderous foes;
Meek, as a lamb for slaughter bound,
The patient sufferer goes.

XIX.

Arraign'd at Pilate's impious bar,
(Unparallel'd disgrace!)
See spotless innocence appear
In guilt's detested place!

XX.

When perjury fails to stain his name,
The mob's envenom'd breath
Extorts his sentence, " Publick shame
" And painful lingering death. "
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