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Counting Cost of the Cross

Tune: Breslau

(\'Take up thy cross, the Saviour said\')

Mark 8 v.34-37

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Jesus said, Whosoever will

Come after me, follow me still

Let them deny themselves, and take

Up their cross daily for my sake

 

Take up their cross and follow me

For whosoever of you be

Who will save their life shall it lsoe

But whosoever of you choose

 

Choose to lose your life for my sake

And for the gospel\'s, they shall take

Up their life, and shall true it save

God shall the path for them clear pave

 

For what shall it profit a man

If gaining while world if he can

And loses his own soul in this?

He the way of true life shall miss

 

Or what shall a man give ,exchange

For his soul? Whate\'er be the range

We cannot buy back our soul though

Dying to self, life we shall know