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[How fervent is our Shepherd's love]
He appeared in another form unto two, &c.
—xvi. 12.
How fervent is our Shepherd's love,
Who follows all the sheep that rove,
Who every wanderer
Pursues with persevering grace
As every child of Adam's race
Engross'd His tender care.
Who follows all the sheep that rove,
Who every wanderer
Pursues with persevering grace
As every child of Adam's race
Engross'd His tender care.
Their Shepherd rising from the dead
To each extends His friendly aid,
To each Himself applies,
Dispersed and stumbled by His death
Brings back into His fold beneath,
And leads them to the skies.
To each extends His friendly aid,
To each Himself applies,
Dispersed and stumbled by His death
Brings back into His fold beneath,
And leads them to the skies.
'Tis thus He for His followers cares,
When persecution parts and tears
The flock, and scatters wide,
When daily they His lot partake
To death deliver'd for His sake,
With Jesus crucified.
When persecution parts and tears
The flock, and scatters wide,
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To death deliver'd for His sake,
With Jesus crucified.
Beyond the rage of fiends and men
He gathers and unites again
The people of His love:
And O, that I might gather'd be,
To share through all eternity
Thy glorious life above!
He gathers and unites again
The people of His love:
And O, that I might gather'd be,
To share through all eternity
Thy glorious life above!
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