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Quotation from Hymns and Spiritual Songs by Isaac Watts
“Alas! and did my Saviour bleed, And did my Sovereign die? Would he devote that sacred head For such a worm as I?”
Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II: Composed on Divine Subjects (Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707), text of an 1818 London printing, via Project Gutenberg #13341)
Book II, Hymn 9, 'Godly sorrow arising from the sufferings of Christ'.
Citation: "Alas! and did my Saviour bleed, And did my Sovereign die? Would he devote that sacred head For such a worm as I?" — Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II: Composed on Divine Subjects (Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707), text of an 1818 London printing, via Project Gutenberg #13341). (id watts-hymns-and-spiritual-songs-q2)
