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The Sufferings and Death of Jesus. Luke 22. 44

1 How willing was Jesus to die,
  That we fellow-sinners might live!
  The life they could not take away,
  How ready was Jesus to give!
  They piercèd his hands and his feet;
  His hands and his feet he resigned;
  The pangs of his body were great,
  But greater the pangs of his mind.

2 That wrath would have kindled a hell
  Of never-abating despair,
  In millions of creatures, which fell
  On Jesus, and spent itself there.
  ’Twas justice that burst in a blaze
  Of vengeance on Jesus, our Head;
  Divinity’s indwelling rays
  Sustained him till nature was dead.

3 Divinity back to his frame
  The life he had yielded restored,
  And Jesus entombed was the same
  With Jesus in glory adored.
  No nearer we venture than this,
  To gaze on a deep so profound,
  But tread, whilst we taste of the bliss,
  With reverence the hallowèd ground.