HYMN 16. On CHRIST's Suretiship.
1
Lord we've run out, and wasted all
our Riches and our Store;
And now our Credit is quite gone
thou wilt trust us no more:
2
Unless there is a Surety found
we must in Prison ly,
And bear thy dreadful Wrath, O God,
unto Eternity.
3
And therefore Jesus thou didst send,
no Friend had we to bring;
All good from hence, we may perceive,
doth from thy Bowels spring,
4
'Twas from the Worth and Dignity
which in Christ's Person lay,
He did God's Justice satisfie,
and all our Debts defray.
5
O let Men dread how they despise
such sovereign Grace and Love,
Because Mysterious in their Eyes,
and also far above
6
Depraved Reason to conceive,
that such who guilty be,
Should, by another's Righteousness,
from Sin and Guilt be free.
7
Al praise and glory unto God,
and to the Son whom we Adore;
And to the Holy-Ghost likewise,
be Praise for Evermore.
