164    L.M.     Isaac Watts
Christ’s Passion and Sinners’ Salvation. 1 Pet. 1. 11

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 loud complaints he spends his breath,
  While hosts of hell and powers of death,
  And all the sons of malice join
  To execute their cursed design.

3 Yet, gracious God! thy power and love
  Have made the curse a blessing prove!
  Those dreadful sufferings of thy Son
  Atoned for sins which we had done.

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

5 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 turned to shame.