1-Corinthians_1-18: For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God

O head once filled with bruises.

Oppressed with pain and scorn:

Overwhelmed with sore abuses,

Mocked with a crown of thorn!

O head to death once wounded,

In shame upon the tree,

In glory now surrounded,

With brightest Majesty!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thou, Lord, of all transcendent;

Thou life- creating Sun

To worlds on Thee dependent

Yet bruised and spit upon!

O Lord! what Thee tormented

Was our sin’s heavy load;

We had the debt augmented

Which Thou didst pay in blood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We give thee thanks unfeigned,

Lord Jesus, Friend in need,

For what Thy Soul sustained.

When Thou for us didst bleed;

Grant us to lean unshaken

Upon Thy…