Though faith cannot be slain in fight,
It may receive a wound.
7 While Satan watches^are we sleep?
We must our guard maintain ;
But, Lord, do thou the city keep,
Or else wo watch in vain.
109.
Father, forgive them.—Luke, xxiii, 34.
1 FATHER, forgive," the Saviour said,
" They know not what they do: ?
His heart was moved when thus he pray d
For me, my friends, and you.
2 He saw that as the Jews abused
And crucified his flesh,
So he by us would be refused,
And crucified afresh.
3 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.
4 We knew not the desert of sin,
Nor whom we thus defied ;
Nor where our guilty souls had been
If Jesus had not died.
5 We knew not what a law we broke,
How holy, just, and pure !
Nor what a God we durst provoke,
But thought ourselves secure.
6 But Jesus all our guilt foresaw,
And shed his precious blood,
To satisfy the holy law,
And make our peace with trod.
7 My sin, dear Saviour, made thee bleed,
Yet didst thou pray for me!
I knew not what I did, indeed,
When ignorant of thee.
