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Quotation from Hymns and Spiritual Songs by Isaac Watts
“When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory dy'd, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.”
Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book III: Prepared for the Lord's Supper (Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707), text of an 1818 London printing, via Project Gutenberg #13341)
Book III, Hymn 7, 'Crucifixion to the world by the cross of Christ', on Galatians 6:14.
Citation: "When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory dy'd, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride." — Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book III: Prepared for the Lord's Supper (Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707), text of an 1818 London printing, via Project Gutenberg #13341). (id watts-hymns-and-spiritual-songs-q1)
