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Text: | Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken |
Author: | Henry Francis Lyte |
Tune: | ST. HILARY |
1 Jesus, I my cross have taken,
All to leave and follow Thee;
Destitute, despised, forsaken,
Thou from hence my All shalt be.
Perish ev'ry fond ambition,
All I've sought, or hoped, or known;
Yet how rich is my condition:
God and heav'n are still my own.
2 Man may trouble and distress me,
'Twill but drive me to Thy breast;
Life with trials hard may press me,
Heav'n will bring me sweeter rest.
O 'tis not in grief to harm me
While Thy love is left to me;
O 'twere not in joy to charm me,
Were that joy unmixed with Thee.
3 Take, my soul, thy full salvation,
Rise o'er sin, and fear, and care;
Joy to find in every station
Something still to do or bear.
Think what Spirit dwells within thee,
What a Father's smile is thine,
What a Saviour died to win thee;
Child of heaven, shouldst thou repine?
4 Haste, then, on from grace to glory,
Armed by faith and winged by prayer;
Heaven's eternal day's before thee,
God's own hand shall guide thee there.
Soon shall close thine earthly mission,
Swift shall pass thy pilgrim days;
Hope soon change to glad fruition,
Faith to sight, and prayer to praise.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Jesus, I my cross have taken |
Title: | Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken |
Author: | Henry Francis Lyte (1824) |
Meter: | 8 7, 8 7. D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1937 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; |
Topic: | Way of Salvation: Sanctification; Epiphany, First Sunday; Names and Office of Christ: Our All(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. HILARY |
Meter: | 8 7, 8 7. D. |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Source: | Origin uncertain |