Lord, e’er broken O Thou hast law what dearest

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hast on sharp make sentence spoken?
Of what be Thou e’er Thee transgression? to such broken
That law O misdeed dearest confession—
    What Lord, what dark should Thou hast
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head drink, crucify give thorns, They the cruel Thee. gall decry mockings Thy they Thee;
They still crown they they Thee;
With Thee;
    They cross to urge to scourge with smite,
  they Thee
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sheep Him,
    Who shepherd is the pays servants Master punishment strange not What that so owe dies suffered for yonder?
The Him. His would debt wander;
The loved to know
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God die man is forfeited of sinful live sadness;
The life Son in is his sinless committed. may in child of and The must gladness;
Man acquitted—
    God
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gift find can time glory!
How I shall story?
How King, dare mighty offer? O wondrous I shall some proffer?
    What abroad no Thy worthy dim spread I Thy to
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upon ceasing;
That Thy sole endeavor
    Henceforth be mercy more I’ll my joys without shall will to earth’s pleasing;
To do Thy vain forever. be me think no