Text: | O Perfect Life of Love! |
Author: | Henry W. Baker |
Tune: | SOUTHWELL |
1 O perfect life of love!
All, all is finished now,
All that He left His throne above
To do for us below.
2 No work is left undone
Of all the Father willed;
His toil, His sorrows, one by one,
The Scriptures have fulfilled.
3 No pain that we can share
But He has felt its smart;
All forms of human grief and care
Have pierced that tender heart.
4 And on His thorn-crowned head,
And on His sinless soul,
Our sins in all their guilt were laid,
That He might make us whole.
5 In perfect love He dies;
For me He dies, for me;
O all-atoning Sacrifice,
I cling by faith to Thee.
6 In every time of need,
Before the judgment-throne,
Thy works, O Lamb of God, I’ll plead,
Thy merits, not mine own.
7 Yet work, O Lord, in me
As Thou for me hast wrought;
And let my love the answer be
To grace Thy love has brought.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O perfect life of love! |
Title: | O Perfect Life of Love! |
Author: | Henry W. Baker (1875) |
Meter: | S.M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1941 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | The Church Year: Good Friday |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SOUTHWELL |
Meter: | S.M. |
Key: | e minor |
Source: | "Psalter," William Daman, 1579 |