Doctor Watts's Imitation of the Psalms of David ‎#121b

121b. Christ's Passion 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 hell, and pow'rs of death,
And all the sons of malice join
To execute their curst design.

3 Yet, gracious God, thy power and love
Has made the curse a blessing prove;
Those dreadful sufferings of thy Son
Aton'd for crimes 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.

7 Oh 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.

Text Information

• First Line: Deep in our hearts let us record
• Title: Christ's Passion and Sinners Salvation
• Meter: Long Metre
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1790
• Scripture:
  Psalm 69
• Topic: Blood of Christ cleansing from Sin; Christ: his death and resurrection; Christ: his obedience and death; Christ: his sufferings and kingdom; Death: and resurrection of Christ; Death: and sufferings of Christ; Exaltation of Christ to the Kingdom; Glory: of God in our salvation; God: Glorified and Sinners saved; Sacrifice; Saints: by Christ; Suffering: and Kingdom of Christ
• Notes: Public Domain.

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