293Hebrews 4:14-16LM
WHERE high the heavenly temple stands,
   The house of God not made with hands,
A great High Priest our nature wears,
The Saviour of mankind appears.
 
2  He, Who for men their Surety stood,
And poured on earth His precious blood,
Pursues in Heaven His mighty plan,
The Saviour and the Friend of man.
 
3  Though now ascended up on high,
He bends on earth a brother’s eye;
Partaker of the human name,
He knows the frailty of our frame.
 
4  Our Fellow-sufferer yet retains
A fellow-feeling of our pains,
And still remembers, in the skies,
His tears, and agonies, and cries.
 
5  In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part;
He sympathises with our grief,
And to the sufferer sends relief.
 
6  With boldness, therefore, at the throne
Let us make all our sorrows known;
And ask the aid of heavenly power
To help us in the evil hour.
 
Michael Bruce, 1746-67