Hymns on the Lord's Supper

Sing For Joy!
This week's song is
HYMN 21
by Charles Wesley
in the collection "Hymns on the Lord's Supper"

Hymn XXI.

1 God of unexampled grace,
    Redeemer of mankind,
Matter of eternal praise
    We in thy Passion find:
Still our choicest strains we bring,
    Still the joyful theme pursue,
Thee the friend of sinners sing
    Whose love is ever new.

2 Endless scenes of wonder rise
    With that mysterious tree,
Crucified before our eyes
    Where we our Maker see:
Jesus, Lord, what hast thou done!
    Publish we the death divine,
Stop, and gaze, and fall, and own
    Was never love like thine!

3 Never love nor sorrow was
    Like that my Jesus show’d;
See him stretch’d on yonder cross
    And crush’d beneath our load!
Now discern the deity,
    Now his heavenly birth declare!
Faith cries out ’Tis he, ’tis he,
    My God that suffers there!

4 Jesus drinks the bitter cup;
    The wine-press treads alone,
Tears the graves and mountains up
    By his expiring groan:
Lo! The powers of heaven he shakes;
    Nature in convulsions lies,
Earth’s profoundest centre quakes,
    The great Jehovah dies!

5 Dies the glorious cause of all,
    The true eternal Pan,
Falls to raise us from our fall,
    To ransom sinful man:
Well may Sol withdraw his light,
    With the sufferer sympathize,
Leave the world in sudden night,
    While his Creator dies.

6 Well may heaven be cloath’d with black
    And solemn sackcloath wear,
Jesu’s agony partake
    The hour of darkness share:
Mourn th’ astonish’d10 hosts above,
    Silence saddens all the skies,
Kindler of seraphick love
    The God of angels dies.

7 O my God, he dies for me,
    I feel the mortal smart!
See him hanging on the tree—
    A sight that breaks my heart!
O that all to thee might turn!
    Sinners, ye may love him too,
Look on him ye pierc’d, and mourn
    For one who bled for you.

8 Weep o’er your desire and hope
    With tears of humblest love;
Sing, for Jesus is gone up,
    And reigns enthron’d above!
Lives our head, to die no more:
    Power is all to Jesus given,
Worship’d as he was before
    Th’ immortal King of heaven.

9 Lord, we bless thee for thy grace,
    And truth which never fail,
Hastning to behold thy face
    Without a dimming veil:
We shall see our heavenly King,
    All thy glorious love proclaim,
Help the angel-quires to sing
    Our dear triumphant Lamb.

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