Verse 1
Come we that record
The death of our Lord,
The death let us bear,
By faithful remembrance his sacrifice share.
Verse 2
Shall we let our God groan
And suffer alone,
Or to Calvary fly,
And nobly resolve with our Master to die!
Verse 3
His servants shall be
With him on the tree,
Where Jesus was slain,
His crucified servants shall always remain.
Verse 4
By the cross we abide
Where Jesus hath died,
To all we are dead;
The members can never out-live their own head.
Verse 5
Poor penitents we
Expect not to see
His glory above,
Till first we have drunk of the cup of his love:
Verse 6
Till first we partake
The cross for his sake,
And thankfully own
The cup of his love and his sorrow are one.
Verse 7
Conform’d to his death
If we suffer beneath,
With him we shall know
The power of his first resurrection below.
Verse 8
If his death we receive,
His life we shall live,
If his cross we sustain,
His joy and his crown we in heaven shall gain.