LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
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| | Dates: | 1707
| | Bible Refs: | 1 Ti 2:5-6
| Baptist Hymnal
| 1956
| 101
| Believers Hymn Book
| 1981
| 6
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 2
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| 9
| Hymns for The Little Flock
| 1981
| 403
| Hymns for Today's Church 2
| 1988
| 124
| Hymns of Faith
| 1964
| 184
| Presbyterian Hymn Book
| 1990
| 78
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 752
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 765
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 195
| United Methodist Hymn Book
| 1989
| 294
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MUSIC
Alternate Tunes
| WALSALL | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | Henry Purcell & W. Anchors, c 1721 A Choice Collection of Psalm T | | REMEMBER ME | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | Asa Hull | | MARTYRDOM | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | Hugh Wilson & Ralph Erskine Hudson | | ST. FLAVIAN | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | 1562 Day's Psalter | | SACRA | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | Amelia M. Hull | | ARLINGTON | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | Thomas Augustine Arne & Ralph Harrison | | AVON | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | Hugh Wilson |
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| 1. Alas! and did my Saviour bleed?
And did my Sov'reign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For sinners such as I!
2. Thy body slain,
sweet Jesus, Thine—
And bathed in its own blood—
While the firm mark of wrath divine,
His Soul in anguish stood.
3. Was it for crimes that I have done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!
4. Well might the sun
in darkness hide
And shut His glories in,
When Christ, the mighty Maker, died
For man the creature's sin.
5. Thus might I hide my shamed face
while his dear Cross appears,
dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
and melt mine eyes to tears.
6. But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe:
Here, Lord, I give myself away-
'Tis all that I can do!
7. **alt verses
8. Alas! and did my Saviour bleed?
And did my Sov'reign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I!
9. Alas! and did my Saviour bleed?
And did my Saviour die?
Would He devote that sacred head,
For such a worm as I?
10. Well might the sun
in darkness hide,
And shut his glories in,
When the Incarnate Maker died
For man His creature's sin.
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