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36The Father’s delight, to mount Calvry repairs,
With ſcourging and bleeding his bones on him ſtare.
There both Jew and Gentile conjunctly agree.
That Chriſt moſt: be crucified on mount Calvry,
37Divine hidden mercy creation confounds,
The angels, from heaven, with wonder look'd down,
The clouds of wrath were ready to fall
And cruſh guilty ſinners, Chriſt ſuffers for all.
38His bleſs’d hands and his feet are nail’d to the tree,
Between two malefactors expended was he.
But O happy thief, ſav’d from ſatan’s paw,
Who was juſtly condemned for breaking the law
39Behold Thriſt, O Love him, all ſinning in blood
Between Heaven and earth in the midſt of the crowd;
See a ruſſian ſoldier, void of all fear,
There the ſide of our Saviour does pierce with a ſpear,
40Hell’s infernal furies our Lord overthrew,
Broke down the partition ’twixt Gentile and Jew.
Chriſt never gave out till he boldly did cry,
On the croſs, it is finiſh’d. his head bows & die.
41Then Joſeph from Pilate did boldly crave
Chriſt’s glorious body to lay in the grave,
Pilate does grant; then Joſeph takesdown
The body of Jeſus, and lays in his tomb.
42The church was benighted with grief and fear
But ſoon did comfort and joy appear