Tune: Binchester
(\'Happy are they, they that love God\')
Matthew 16 v.24-26
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Jesus did say, If anyone
Will follow me, bar none
Let them deny themselves, and take
Up their cross for my sake
For whosoe\'er will their live save
Shall lose it, this be grave
And whosoe\'er will their life lose
Shall be for them good news
For if they lose life for my sake
They shall find it, and make
True progress in life, for it be
State as I now show, see
[i.e. as in the next verse]
For what is any profited
If [they] gain whole world, misled
And lose their own soul? What can they
Give for soul\'s exchange? say