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Cross of Jesus, Cross of Sorrow (Cross of Jesus)

Text by: William J S Simpson 1886
Tune: Cross of Jesus by John Stainer 1887
Source: Presbyterian 1955 Hymnbook #196
Catholic 1998 Hymn Book #62

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1 Cross of Jesus, cross of sorrow,
Where the blood of Christ was shed,
Perfect Man on thee did suffer,
Perfect God on thee has bled!

2 Here the king of all the ages,
Throned in light ere worlds could be,
Robed in mortal flesh is dying,
Crucified by sin for me.

3 O mysterious condescending!
4 O abandonment sublime!
Very God Himself is bearing
All the sufferings of time!

5 Evermore for human failure
By His passion we can plead;
God has born all mortal anguish,
Surely He will know our need.

6 This—all human thought surpassing—
This is earth’s most awful hour,
God has taken mortal weakness!
God has laid aside His power!

7 Once the Lord of brilliant seraphs,
Winged with love to do His will,
Now the scorn of all His creatures,
And the aim of every ill.

8 Up in Heaven, sublimest glory
Circled round Him from the first;
But the earth finds none to serve Him,
None to quench His raging thirst.

9 Who shall fathom that descending,
From the rainbow circled throne,
Down to earth’s most base profaning,
Dying desolate alone.

10 From the Holy, Holy, Holy,
We adore Thee, O most High,
Down to earth’s blaspheming voices
And the shout of Crucify.

11 Cross of Jesus, cross of sorrow,
Where the blood of Christ was shed,
Perfect Man on thee did suffer,
Perfect God on thee has bled!

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