49. Christ Delivered Us When Bound

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by W. Cowper, 1779
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Christ delivered us when bound,
 
And, when wounded, healed our wound,
 
Sought us wandering, set us right,
 
Turned our darkness into light.
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.” (1 Peter 2:9)
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Can a mother’s tender care
 
Cease towards the child she bare?
 
Yes, she may forgetful prove,
 
He will never cease to love.
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.” (Isaiah 49:15)
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His is an unchanging love,
 
Higher than the heights above,
 
Deeper than the depths beneath,
 
Free and faithful, strong as death.
“For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” (Malachi 3:6)
“May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height. And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” (Ephesians 3:18-19)
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.” (Song of Solomon 8:6)
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We shall see His glory soon,
 
When the work of grace is done,
 
Partners of His throne above;
 
Such to us His wondrous love!
“But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.” (1 Peter 4:13)
“Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father.” (1 Thessalonians 1:3)
“Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power.” (2 Thessalonians 1:11)
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” (Revelation 3:21)
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This alone is our complaint,
 
That our love is weak and faint;
 
Yet we love Him, and adore,
 
Oh for grace to love Him more!
“We love him, because he first loved us.” (1 John 4:19)
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