From the cross uplifted high
From the cross uplifted high. Thomas Haweis* (1734-1820).
First published in Haweis’s Carmina Christo; or, Hymns to the Saviour (1792) in four 6-line stanzas. It is based on John 7: 37: ‘In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink’. Stanza 2 was omitted in The Sabbath Hymn Book: for the Service of Song in the House of the Lord (New York and Boston, 1858):
Sprinkled now with blood the throne,Why beneath thy burden groan?On my pierced body laid,Justice owns the ransom paid –Bow the knee, and kiss the Son –Come, and welcome, sinner, come!
It is a daring dramatic monologue, in the manner of ‘Hark, my soul! it...
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