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Christ’s Love to his Spouse made Known. John 14. 21

1 I’ll speak forth the love of my Lord,
  His praises my tongue shall employ;
  He bought me with his precious blood,
  Nor Gabriel is loved more than I;
  Though pure, he for me was made sin;
  Though rich, he for me became poor;
  Though free, yet a debtor brought in;
  For me he has paid the long score.

2 [These truths to my heart he proclaimed,
  When helpless I stood and distressed,
  When I at the bar was arraigned,
  With law, sin, and terrors oppressed.
  No hand to my help did appear;
  The witness against me was true;
  Which filled me with horror and fear,
  Till Jesus, my Lord, came in view.]

3 He saw me distressed, and he said,
  “Fear not, I procured thy discharge;
  I’m Jesus, who lives, and was dead,
  And now will I set thee at large.”
  Not one in the court did object,
  But all gave a smile when he spoke;
  He then took the yoke off my neck,
  And ravished my soul with his look.

4 What joy filled my soul, who can tell?
  But surely I ne’er shall forget;
  My Jesus has all things done well,
  And therefore his love I’ll repeat.
  To him all the glory belongs;
  He now is the theme of my songs,
  And shall be for ever the same.