Hymns and Spiritual Songs, in Three Books ‎#I.CXII

I.CXII. The brazen serpent: or looking to Jesus

1 So did the Hebrew prophet raise
The brazen serpent high,
The wounded felt immediate ease,
The camp forbore to die.

2 "Look upward in the dying hour,
"And live," the prophet cries;
But Christ performs a nobler cure,
When Faith lifts up her eyes.

3 High on the cross the Saviour hung,
High in the heav'ns he reigns;
Here sinners by th' old serpent stung,
Look, and forget their pains.

4 When God's own Son is lifted up,
A dying world revives:
The Jew beholds the glorious hope,
Th' expiring Gentile lives.

Text Information

• First Line: So did the Hebrew prophet raise
• Title: The brazen serpent: or looking to Jesus
• Meter: C. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1793
• Scripture:
  John 3:14-16

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