Christ — Mediation and Atonement

Though I should seek to wash me clean

No. 348
Words Anon.
Singing key D minor
4 stanzas

Sung to WINDHAM (hymn 361)

Words

Though I should seek to wash me cleanIn water of the driven snow,My soul would yet its spots retain,And sink in conscious guilt and woe.

God's law in all its power divineCondemns my erring soul to death;Declares the foulness of its sin,And shows the vileness of its worth.

There must a Mediator pleadWhom God and man may both embrace,With God for man to intercede,And offer us the purchased grace.

And thus the Son of God is slainTo be this Mediator crowned;In him, my soul, be cleansed from stain,In him thy righteousness be found.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «348» (large) in the left column of p. 115, below hymn 347 («Michael Bruce.»), with the reference line «361, 64, 101.» in bold italic figures beside it (sing to the tune of hymn 361, 64 or 101). Four numbered stanzas of four lines, lines 2 and 4 indented, «Anon.» in italics at the end. The first word «THOUGH» is set in capitals and small capitals. The print sets a thin space before «;» («death ;», «crowned ;»); it is closed up here. «righteouness» (stanza 4) is the print's spelling. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's. No meter is printed (the text is L. M., 8.8.8.8).