COMPASSION.
Thou O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.—Psalm lxxxvi. 15.
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.—Lamentations, iii. 22.
Have compassion on us, and help us.—Mark, ix. 22.
Ye had compassion of me in my bonds.—Hebrews, x. 34.
Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another.—I. Peter, iii. 8.
Jesus, the friend of human kind,
With strong compassion moved,
Descended, like a pitying God,
To save the souls he loved.
Exalted high at God’s right hand,
And Lord of all below,
Through him is pardoning love dispensed,
And boundless blessings flow.
And still, for erring, guilty man,
A brother’s pity flows;
And still his bleeding heart is touched
With memory of our woes.
Barbauld.
The light of love and glory
Has shone through Christ the Saviour,
The holy Guide, who lived and died,
That we might live for ever.
And since thy great compassion
Thus brings thy children near thee,
May we to praise devote our days,
And love as well as fear thee.
Henry Ware, Jun.
Lord, what offerings shall we bring,
At thine altars when we bow?
Hearts, the pure unsullied spring,
Whence the kind affections flow;
Soft compassion’s feeling soul,
By the melting eye exprest,
Sympathy, at whose control
Sorrow leaves the wounded breast.
John Taylor.