Verse 1
Jesus, thy Spirit shows
That trouble, grief, and pain
Must be the portion of all those
That would thy crown obtain:
But we who preach thy grace,
The outcasts of mankind,
A larger share, in every place,
Of sharpest sufferings find.
Verse 2
Warn’d by the Comforter,
And strengthen’d in thy cause,
We meet, without surprize or fear,
Th’ inevitable cross:
T’ embrace thy sacred woe
Thou dost our hearts incline:
And lo, we live, and die, below
A sacrifice divine!