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[The members here and Head above]
Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?
—ix. 4.
The members here and Head above,
United in the Spirit of love
One mystic body make,
And Jesus, once a Man of woe
The sufferings of His saints below
Doth still in heaven partake.
United in the Spirit of love
One mystic body make,
And Jesus, once a Man of woe
The sufferings of His saints below
Doth still in heaven partake.
Oppress'd we in His Spirit groan;
Our sorrows He accounts His own,
And answers sigh for sigh;
Fighting with God our foes are found,
And touching us, they madly wound
The apple of His eye.
Our sorrows He accounts His own,
And answers sigh for sigh;
Fighting with God our foes are found,
And touching us, they madly wound
The apple of His eye.
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Hear this, thou persecutor hear,
And smote from heaven with sudden fear
Before thy Smiter fall;
The madness of resistance find,
And know—the Saviour of mankind
Is rich in grace for all.
And smote from heaven with sudden fear
Before thy Smiter fall;
The madness of resistance find,
And know—the Saviour of mankind
Is rich in grace for all.
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