Two Sayings

Two sayings of the Holy Scriptures beat Like pulses in the Church’s brow and breast; And by them we find rest in our unrest, And heart-deep in salt tears, do yet entreat God’s fellowship, as if on heavenly seat. The first is Jesus wept, whereon is prest Full many a sobbing face that drops its best And sweetest waters on the record sweet: And one is, where the Christ denied and scorned Looked upon Peter. Oh, to render plain, By help of having loved a little and mourned, That look of sovran love and sovran pain Which he who could not sin yet suffered, turned On him who could reject but not sustain!

Collection: 
1826
Sub Title: 
I. The Divine Element—(God, Christ, the Holy Spirit)

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