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THE GOODNESS OF GOD.

To whom did he his help deny? Whom, in his days of flesh, pass by? 3 Did not his word the fiends expel,

The lepers cleanse, and raise the dead? Did he not all their sickness heal, And satisfy their every need? Did he reject his helpless clay, Or send them sorrowful away?

4 Nay, but his bowels yearn'd to see The people hungry, scatter'd, faint; Nay, but he utter'd over thee,

Jerusalem, a true complaint; Jerusalem, who shedd'st his blood, That, with his tears, for thee hath flow'd.

HYMN 33.

6-8's.

1

have the sinner

W Why hangs he then on yonder tree?

What means that strange expiring cry? ( Sinners, he prays for you and me:) " Forgive them, Father, O forgive: They know not that by me they live!" 2 Adam descended from above,

Our loss of Eden to retrieve, Great God of universal love,

If all the world through thee may live, In us a quick'ning Spirit be, And witness thou hast died for me!

3 Thou loving, all- atoning Lamb,

Thee- by thy painful agony, Thy bloody sweat, thy grief and shame, Thy cross, and passion on the tree, Thy precious death and life- I pray, Take all, take all my sins away!

4 O let me kiss thy bleeding feet,

And bathe and wash them with my tears;