195:Once, on a day, was Christ led forth to die
| Tunes: | Love's old sweet song, 478 |
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ONCE, on a day, was Christ led forth to die,
And with the crowd that pressed on him joined I.
Slowly they led him, led him to the tree,
And I beheld his hands no more were free.
Bound fast with cords, and this was his distress,
That men denied those hands outstretched to bless.
Sacred hands of Jesus, they were bound for me;
Wounded hands of Jesus, stretched upon a tree,
Ever interceding, mercy is their plea.
Their effectual pleading brings grace to me,
Redeeming grace to me.
2 Hands that were scarred by daily fret and tear;
Hands quick to soothe the troubled brow of care;
Hands strong to smite the sins that men enthrone,
Yet never raised to seek or claim their own:
Dear hands of Christ! and yet men feared them so
That they must bind them as to death they go.
3 Hands that still break to men the living bread;
Hands full of power to raise again the dead,
Potent and healing, eager to reclaim,
Laid in forgiveness on one bowed in shame;
Say, would?st thou bind, by pride and unbelief,
Those hands that compass all thy soul?s relief?
And with the crowd that pressed on him joined I.
Slowly they led him, led him to the tree,
And I beheld his hands no more were free.
Bound fast with cords, and this was his distress,
That men denied those hands outstretched to bless.
Sacred hands of Jesus, they were bound for me;
Wounded hands of Jesus, stretched upon a tree,
Ever interceding, mercy is their plea.
Their effectual pleading brings grace to me,
Redeeming grace to me.
2 Hands that were scarred by daily fret and tear;
Hands quick to soothe the troubled brow of care;
Hands strong to smite the sins that men enthrone,
Yet never raised to seek or claim their own:
Dear hands of Christ! and yet men feared them so
That they must bind them as to death they go.
3 Hands that still break to men the living bread;
Hands full of power to raise again the dead,
Potent and healing, eager to reclaim,
Laid in forgiveness on one bowed in shame;
Say, would?st thou bind, by pride and unbelief,
Those hands that compass all thy soul?s relief?
Albert
Bible reference
John 18:12-14 (Key verse)
John 6:35
Luke 22:49-52
1 Peter 2:24
John 11:43-44
Matthew 26:35
John 18:24
Luke 7:11-16
Matthew 27:2
Matthew 27:31
Tunes linked to this song
478:Love's old sweet song
478:Love's old sweet song
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