Hymn Stupendous was the love

This hymn is 55 in the collection and is headed Incarnation and sufferings. Only the first verse is really about the incarnation. Beddome goes straight to the cross. Stupendous is a word found in another hymn we have mentioned. "His imperial throne" seems to be from Tate and Brady. The idea of Christ wading through a sea is in Jonathan Edwards (eg "The minister before the judgement seat of God" - But what are the labours of the most faithful and laborious of the ministers of the Gospel, and what is their self-denial in comparison of the labors and sufferings that Christ had gone through for souls, who has waded through a sea of blood and gone through a furnace of wrath for their salvation?)

1 STUPENDOUS was the love

Of God's eternal Son

Who left the blissful scenes above

And his imperial throne

2 He waded through a sea

Of overwhelming
wrath

That wretched sinners such as we

Might be redeemed from death

3 Expiring on the cross

He Satan's empire broke

Surprise and horror seized his foes

And hell's foundation shook

4 From him we grace receive

In him all good possess

And those who on his word believe

Shall reign with him in bliss

5 Hosanna to his name

Let heavenly hosts adore

But saints with pure seraphic flame

Should love and praise him more