[He] who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.
1 Peter 2:24
Words: Charles Wesley (1707–1788). Appeared in The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, Volume III (Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press, 1992), page 186.
Music: Arthur’s Seat John Goss, in Hymns and Songs of Praise (New York: 1874) (🔊 pdf nwc).
Set forth before our eyes,
As fastened to the tree
The Lord of earth and skies,
Th’eternal God we see,
God over all in form of man,
Jehovah for His creatures slain!
Who call Thy death to mind,
Let us its virtues prove,
The Lover of mankind,
The Friend of sinners love,
Whose death is immortality,
Is glorious life, and Heaven to me.