88. O Blessed Savior, Is Thy Love

C.M.
by J. Stennett, 1697
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O blessed Savior, is Thy love
 
So great, so full, so free?
 
Fain would we have our thoughts, our hearts,
 
Our lives engaged with Thee.
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We love Thee for the glorious worth
 
Which in Thyself we see:
 
We love Thee for that shameful cross,
 
Endured so patiently.
3
No man of greater love can boast
 
Than for his friend to die;
 
Thou for Thine enemies wast slain!
 
What love with Thine can vie?
4
Though in the very form of God,
 
With heavenly glory crowned,
 
Thou didst a servant’s form assume,
 
Beset with sorrow round.
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Thou wouldst like wretched man be made
 
In everything but sin,
 
That we as like Thee might become
 
As we unlike had been:
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Like Thee in faith, in meekness, love,
 
In every beauteous grace;
 
From glory into glory changed,
 
Till we behold Thy face.
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 3:18)
“As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.” (Psalm 17:15)
“And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.” (Revelation 22:4)
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O Lord! we treasure in our souls
 
The memory of Thy love;
 
And ever shall Thy name to us
 
A grateful odor prove.
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