Wesley Corpus

1 T^ROM whence these dire portents around, ■*- That heaven and earth amaze? Wherefore do earthquakes cleave the ground ? Why hides the sun his rays ? 2 Not thus did Sinai's trembling head With sacred horror nod, Beneath the dark pavilion spread Of legislative God. 3 Thou Earth, thy lowest centre shake, With Jesus sympathize ! Thou Sun, as hell's deep gloom be black, 'Tis thy Creator dies ! 4 See, streaming from the' accursed tree, His all-atoning blood ! Is this the Infinite ? -- 'Tis he ! My Saviour and my God ! 5 For me these pangs his soul assail, For me the death is borne ; My sins gave sharpness to the nail. And pointed every thorn. Sufferings, fyc, of Christ, 565 6 Let sin no more my soul enslave ; Break, Lord, the tyrant's chain ; 0 save me, whom thou cam'st to save, Nor bleed nor die in vain ! HYMN 614. l. m. " It is finished." 1 "THIS finish'd ! The Messias dies, -^ Cut off for sins, but not his own . Accomplished is the sacrifice, The great redeeming work is done. 2 'Tis finish'd ! all the debt is paid ; Justice divine is satisfied ; The grand and full atonement made ; God for a guilty world hath died. 3 The veil is rent in Christ alone ; The living way to heaven is seen; The middle wall is broken down, And all mankind may enter in. 4 The types and figures are fulfill'd ; Exacted is the legal pain ; The precious promises are seal'd ; The spotless Lamb of God is slain. 5 The reign of sin and death is o'er, And all may live from sin set free ; Satan hath lost his mortal power ; 'Tis swallow'd up in victory. 6 Saved from the legal curse I am, My Saviour hangs on yonder tree : See there the meek, expiring Lamb ! 'Tis finish'd ! He expires for me. 7 Accepted in the Well-beloved, And clothed in righteousness divine. 1 see the bar to heaven removed ; And all thy merits, Lord, are mine. Do() Incarnation, 8 Death, hell, and sin are now suhdued ; All grace is now to sinners given ; And, lo, I plead the' atoning blood, And in thy right I claim thy heaven HYMN 615. s. m