Sore amazed is God’s own Son

Verse 1
Sore amaz’d is God’s own Son
God’s vindictive wrath to see,
Griev’d with mortal grief unknown,
Crush’d by our iniquity:
And shall we ourselves remain
Still to both insensible,
Strangers to remorse and pain,
Neither sin nor justice feel?

Verse 2
Could we see that dreadful sight
With our Saviour’s eyes and heart,
Justice, sin, brought forth to light
Would our soul and body part;
But who both for man hath borne,
Spares us the extreme dismay,
Gives us self-condemn’d to mourn,
Takes our griefs and sins away.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy.’—[Mark 14,] v. 33.” 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 77.
Publishing: Public Domain