88. O Blessed Savior, Is Thy Love

C.M.
by J. Stennett, 1697
1
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.
“And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” (Ephesians 3:19)
2
We love Thee for the glorious worth
 
Which in Thyself we see:
 
We love Thee for that shameful cross,
 
Endured so patiently.
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2)
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?
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)
“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:10)
4
Though in the very form of God,
 
With heavenly glory crowned,
 
Thou didst a servant’s form assume,
 
Beset with sorrow round.
“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.” (Philippians 2:6)
“But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.” (Philippians 2:7)
5
Thou wouldst like wretched man be made
 
In everything but sin,
 
That we as like Thee might become
 
As we unlike had been:
“But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.” (Philippians 2:7)
“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” (Hebrews 4:15)
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” (Romans 8:29)
6
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)
7
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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