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Text:Behold the Saviour of mankind
Author:S. Wesley, Sr., 1662-1735
Tune:ST. MARY

69. Behold the Saviour of mankind

1 Behold the Saviour of mankind
Nailed to the shameful tree!
How vast the love that Him inclined
To bleed and die for thee!

2 Hark, how He groans! while nature shakes,
And earth's strong pillars bend;
The temple's veil in sunder breaks,
The solid marbles rend.

3 'Tis done! the precious ransom's paid;
"Receive my soul," He cries!
See where He bows His sacred head;
He bows His head, and dies.

4 But soon He'll break death's envious chain,
And in full glory shine;
O Lamb of God! was ever pain,
Was ever love, like Thine?

Text Information
First Line: Behold the Saviour of mankind
Author: S. Wesley, Sr., 1662-1735
Language: English
Publication Date: 1917
Topic: Atonement: Finished; Christ: Lamb of God; Christ: Crucified (12 more...)
Tune Information
Name: ST. MARY
Meter: C.M.
Key: d minor or modal
Source: Archdeacon Prys's "Llyfr y Psalmau," 1621



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