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ARK the voice of love and
Sounds aloud from Calvary;
See it rends the rocks asunder,
Shakes the earth and veils the sky!
"IT IS FINISA'D!"

Hear the dying SAVIOUR Cry!

2 IT IS FINISH'D! O what pleasure:
Do these sacred words afford!
Heav'nly blessings without measure
Flow to us from CRIST the LORD,
IT IS FINISH'D!.

Saints the dying words record.

3 FINISH'D all the types and shadows
Of the ceremonial law!

Finish'd all that God had promis'd,
Death and hell no more shall awe.
IT is FINISH'D!

Saints, from hence your comfort draw.

4 Tune your harps anew, ye seraphs,
Join to sing the glorious theme!
All on earth, and all in heaven.
Join to praise IMMANUEL'S name,
Hallelujah!

Glory to the bleeding Lamm.

GOOD FRIDAY.

Matt. xxvii. 45, 46.

C. M.

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LASI and did my SAVIOUR bleed?
And did my Sov'reign die?

Would he devote that sacred head:
For such a worm as I?

2 Was it for crimes that I had done
He groan'd upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree.

3 Well might the sun in darkness hide,
And shut his glories in ;
When the Almighty SAVIOUR died
For man the creature's sin.

4 Thus might I hide my blushing face,
While JESU's cross appears,
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt my eyes to tears.

But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe;

Here LORD, I give my self to Thee,
'Tis all that I can do, ma

John. iii. 14. 15.

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EHOLD th' amazing sight, The SAVIOUR lifted high! Behold the Son of God's delight Expire in agony !

2 For whom, for whom, my heart,
Were all those sorrows borne?
Why did He feel that piercing smart,
And meet that various scorn?

3 For love of us He bled,

And all in torture died:

'Twas love that Bow'd His fainting head, And ope'd His streaming side.

4 Lord help me to adore

In sympathy of love;

To feel the strong attractive pow'r

To lift my soul above.

5 Drawn by such cords as these,
Let all the earth combine,
With holy ardour to confess
The Mystery divine.

6 In Thee our hearts unite,
Nor share Thy griefs alone,

But from Thy cross pursue their flight
To Thy triumphant Throne.

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PSALM LXXXVIII.

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EHOLD the SAVIOUR of mankind. S
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Behold what love His heart inclin'd ; a K
Submissive to the grave...

2 When He expir'd all nature shook,
Farth's strongest pillars bent;
The temple's veil asunder broke,
The opening graves were rent.

3 'Tis FINISH'D! now the ransom's paid-
Receive my soul, He cried :

'Twas then He bow'd His sacred head, He bow'd His head and died.

4 Soon will He break death's envious chain,
And in full glory shine;

O LAMB of GOD! was ever pain,
Was ever love like Thine!

5 Learn, O my soul, from this dire scene.
How vast that guilt must be,

Which nail'd th' incarnate Son of GoD
To the accursed te

6 Taught by this scene, thy sin bewail

With penitential sighs;

And trust His grace, thro' d h's dark vale
To guide thee to the skies.

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ESUSCHRIST is ris'n to-day-Hallelujah!'
Our triumphant holy-day;

Who so lately on the cross
Suffer'd to redeem our loss.

2 Hymns of praises let us sing,
Unto CHRIST, our heav'nly King,
Who endur'd the cross and grave,
Sinners to redeem and save.

3 By the pains, which He endur'd
Our salvation is procur'd;
Now above the sky He's King,
Where the angels ever sing. Hallelujah!'

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Heb. xix. 20, 21.

GREAT

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YREAT GOD of peace and God of love!
We own Thy pow'r to save

All hail! great Shepherd of the sheep'!
Victorious o'er the grave.ays fre

3 Him from the dead, Thou brought'st again When by His sacred blood,

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