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First Line: The lord is risen! He, who came
Last Line: Cho. Worthy of all pow'r and praise, &c.
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Salvation; The Resurrection; Theology


THE Lord is risen! He, who came
To suffer death and conquer too,
Is risen; let our song proclaim
The praise to man's REDEEMER due:
To Him, whom God, in tender LOVE,
Always alike to bless inclin'd,
Sent to redeem us, from above;
To save, to sanctify mankind.

CHORUS.

Worthy of all pow'r and praise,
He who died and rose again;
Lamb of God,—and slain to raise
Man, to life redeem'd—AMEN.

That life, which Adam ceas'd to live,
When to this world he turn'd his heart,
And to his children could not give,
The SECOND ADAM can impart.
We, on our earthly parent's side,
Could but receive a life of earth;
The Lord from Heaven,—He liv'd, and died,
And rose, to give us heav'nly birth.

CHO. Worthy of all pow'r and praise, & c.

This mortal life, this living death,
Shews that in Adam we all die;
In CHRIST we have immortal breath,
And life's unperishing supply:
HE took our nature, and sustain'd
The mis'ries of its sinful state;
Sinless HIMSELF, for us regain'd
To Paradise an open gate.

CHO. Worthy of all pow'r and praise, &c.

As Adam rais'd a life of sin,
So Christ, the serpent-bruising Seed,
By God's appointment could begin
The birth, in US, of LIFE indeed.
He did begin; parental head,
As Adam fell, so JESUS stood;
Fulfill'd all righteousness, and said
"'TIS FINISH'D!"—on the sacred wood.

CHO. Worthy of all pow'r and praise, &c.

Finish'd his work, to quench the wrath
That sin had brought on Adam's race;
To pave the sole and certain path
From nature's life, to that of grace.
For joy of this, GOD'S only SON
Endur'd the cross, despis'd the shame,
And gave the victory, so won,
For imitating LOVE to claim.

CHO. Worthy of all pow'r and praise, &c.

To tread the path that Jesus trod,
Aided by Him, be our employ;
To die to sin, and live to God,
And yield him the fair purchas'd joy:
To all the laws that love has made
Steadfast, unshaken, to attend;
He died, He rose, Himself our aid,—
Lo! I am with you to the end.

CHO. Worthy of all pow'r and praise, &c.





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