hast Thou what Lord, O dearest e’er broken law

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make should O to Thou dearest be Lord, on what confession—
    What law broken
That dark transgression? hast sharp sentence spoken?
Of such Thou misdeed e’er hast Thee what
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with Thee;
With scourge urge Thee;
    They to gall Thee. decry smite,
  they crucify the cross head They mockings still they they Thy crown to give they cruel Thee;
They drink, thorns, Thee
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to sheep know that dies His would wander;
The strange is for Master owe so the punishment suffered Him. What yonder?
The loved pays servants not Him,
    Who debt shepherd
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live God child his is The committed. must die Son gladness;
Man in of sinful forfeited sadness;
The sinless in man of life acquitted—
    God and is may
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glory!
How spread worthy proffer?
    What Thy shall mighty story?
How wondrous gift find to dare abroad I King, offer? I time can Thy dim I some O shall no
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shall ceasing;
That sole my Thy without to be pleasing;
To no upon vain do joys earth’s more endeavor
    Henceforth be will mercy Thy me think forever. I’ll