\n\nJoseph Hart
The Death and Excellency of Christ. Isa. 13. 12
1 The things on earth which men esteem,
And of their richness boast,
In value less or greater seem,
Proportioned to their cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2 [The diamond, that\u2019s for thousands sold,
Our admiration draws;
For dust men seldom part with gold,
Or barter pearls for straws.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3 Then what inestimable worth
Must in those crowns appear,
For which the Lord came down to earth,
And bought for us, so dear!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4 The Father dearly loves the Son,
And rates his merits high;
For no mean cause he sent him down
To suffer, grieve, and die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5 The blessings from his death that flow,
So little we esteem,
Only because we slightly know,
And meanly value him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6 [\u2019Twas our Creator for us bled,
The Lord of life and power;
Whom angels worship, devils dread \u2013
God blest for evermore.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7 O could we but with clearer eyes
His excellencies trace,
Could we his person learn to prize,
We more should prize his grace.
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Joseph HartThe Death and Excellency of Christ. Isa. 13. 121 The things on earth which men esteem,And of their richness boast,In value less or greater seem,Proportioned to their cost. 2 [The diamond, that\u2019s for thousands sold,Our admiration draws;For dust men seldom part with gold,Or barter pearls for straws.] 3 Then what inestimable worthMust in those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-joseph-hart","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5285,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions\/5285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}