A Garden contemplation suits

The words

1. 1

   Stanza 1. A Garden contemplation suits,And may instruction yield,Sweeter than all the flow’rs and fruitsWith which the spot is filled.

2. 2

   Stanza 2. Eden was Adam’s dwelling place,While blest with innocence;But sin o’erwhelmed him with disgrace,And drove the rebel thence.

3. 3

   Stanza 3. Oft as the garden–walk we tread,We should bemoan his fall;The trespass of our legal headIn ruin plunged us all.

4. 4

   Stanza 4. The garden of Gethsemane,The second Adam saw,Oppressed with woe, to set us freeFrom the avenging law.

5. 5

   Stanza 5. How stupid we, who can forget,With gardens in our sight,His agonies and bloody sweat,In that tremendous night

6. 6

   Stanza 6. His church as a fair garden stands,Which walls of love enclose;Each tree is planted by his hand,And by his blessing grows.

7. 7

   Stanza 7. Believing hearts are gardens too,For grace has sown its seeds;Where once, by nature, nothing grewBut thorns and worthless weeds.

8. 8

   Stanza 8. Such themes to those who JESUS love,May constant joys afford;And make a barren desert proveThe garden of the LORD.

Olney Hymns (1779), Book 2, Hymn 95. John Newton. Public domain. CCEL transcription with modernized spelling. www.praylock.com/olney-hymns/2-95