For the Lord's Supper

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1 Suff'ring Saviour, Lamb of God,
How hast thou been usèd?
With the Almighty’s wrathful rod
Soul and body bruisèd!

2 We, for whom thou once wast slain,
We, whose sins did pierce thee,
Now commemorate thy pain,
And implore thy mercy.

3 We would with thee sympathise
In thy bitter passion;
With soft hearts and weeping eyes
See thy great salvation.

4 [Thine’s an everlasting love;
We have dearly tried thee;
Whom have we in heaven above,
Whom on earth beside thee?

5 What can helpless sinners do
When temptations seize us?
Nought have we to look unto
But the blood of Jesus.]

6 Pardon all our baseness, Lord;
All our weakness pity;
Guide us safely by thy word
To the heavenly city.

7 O sustain us on the road
Through this desert dreary;
Feed us with thy flesh and blood
When we’re faint and weary.

8 Bid us call to mind thy cross,
Our hard hearts to soften;
Often, Saviour, feast us thus,
For we need it often.

Source: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #827

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Author: J. Hart

Hart, Joseph, was born in London in 1712. His early life is involved in obscurity. His education was fairly good; and from the testimony of his brother-in-law, and successor in the ministry in Jewin Street, the Rev. John Hughes, "his civil calling was" for some time "that of a teacher of the learned languages." His early life, according to his own Experience which he prefaced to his Hymns, was a curious mixture of loose conduct, serious conviction of sin, and endeavours after amendment of life, and not until Whitsuntide, 1757, did he realize a permanent change, which was brought about mainly through his attending divine service at the Moravian Chapel, in Fetter Lane, London, and hearing a sermon on Rev. iii. 10. During the next two years ma… Go to person page >

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