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=Lyrics=
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==Lyrics from [[A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, 1840]]==
Hymn 36<br>
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1. Would Jesus have the sinner die?<br>
Why hangs he then on yonder tree?<br>
What means that strange expiring cry?<br>
(Sinners he prays for you and me:)<br>
"Forgive them, Father, O forgive:<br>
They know not that by me they live!"

2. Jesus descended from above,<br>
Our loss of Eden to retrieve;<br>
Great God of universal love,<br>
If all the world through thee may live,<br>
In us a quick'ning spirit be,<br>
And witness thou hast died for me!

3. Thou loving, all atoning Lamb,<br>
Thee - by thy painful agony,<br>
Thy bloody sweat, thy grief and shame,<br>
Thy cross, and passion on the tree,<br>
Thy precious death and life - I pray,<br>
Take all, take all my sins away!

4. O let me kiss thy bleeding feet,<br>
And bathe and wash them with my tears;<br>
The story of thy love repeat<br>
In every drooping sinner's ears;<br>
That all may hear the quick'ning sound,<br>
Since I, e'en I, have mercy found.

5. O let thy love my heart constrain,<br>
Thy love for every sinner free;<br>
That every fallen soul of man<br>
May taste the grace that found out me;<br>
That all mankind with me may prove<br>
Thy sovereign, everlasting love.

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