Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: Behold the Saviour of mankind
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune: Lanesboro with Doxology
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 112, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBehold the Saviour of mankind
Upon the shameful tree;
How great the love that him inclined,
How great the love that him inclined
To bleed and die for me!
"My God," he cries; all nature shakes,
And earth's strong pillars bend;
The gate of death in sunder breaks,
The gate of death in sunder breaks,
The solid marbles rend.
" Tis finish'd: now the ransom's paid:
Receive my soul," he cries:
Behold, he bows his sacred head,
Behold, he bows his sacred head,
He bows his head, and dies!
But soon he'll break death's tyrant chain,
And in full glory shine:
O Lamb of God, was ever pain,
O Lamb of God, was ever pain,
Was ever love, like thine?
Hallelujah, praise the Lord!
hallelujah, praise the Lord!
O praise the Lord forevermore!