Father, Forgive, the Savior Said

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Father, Forgive, the Savior Said
John Newton
11528Father, Forgive, the Savior SaidJohn Newton

Father forgive them by John Newton


“Father, forgive,” the Savior said
“They know not what they do”;
His heart was moved when thus He prayed
For me, my friends, and you.


He saw, that as the Jews abused
And crucified His flesh,
So He, by us, would be refused,
And crucified afresh.


Through love of sin, we long were prone
To act as Satan bid;
But now, with grief and shame we own,
We knew not what we did.


We knew not the desert of sin,
Nor Whom we thus defied;
Nor where our guilty souls had been,
If Jesus had not died.


We knew not what a law we broke,
How holy, just and pure!
Nor what a God we durst provoke,
But thought ourselves secure.


But Jesus all our guilt foresaw,
And shed His precious blood
To satisfy the holy law,
And make our peace with God.


My sin, dear Savior, made Thee bleed,
Yet didst Thou pray for me!
I knew not what I did, indeed,
When ignorant of Thee.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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