Burdened with our griefs and cares

Verse 1
Burthen’d with our griefs and cares
That true Isaac from the skies,
Lo, himself the wood He bears
To the place of sacrifice,
Bears it to Moriah’s top;
There extended on the tree,
Lo, the universal Hope
Hangs, and bleeds, and dies for me!

Verse 2
Suffering death without the gate
From Jerusalem He leads,
Thus instructing us to wait
Where the common Victim bleeds,
After Him our hearts ascend,
Lifted up ’twixt earth and skies,
On his only death depend,
Seek no other sacrifice.

Verse 3
Jesus lays the ransom down,
Buys the nations with his blood,
Doth for all our sins atone,
Reconciles a world to God,
Jesus purchases our peace,
(Peace which every soul may find)
Pardon, grace, and holiness,
Life, and heaven for all mankind.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They bring him unto the place Golgotha.’—[Mark 15,] v. 22.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 86.
Publishing: Public Domain