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Text: | Jesus! the name high over all |
Author: | C. Wesley, 1707-1788 |
Tune: | BYZANTIUM |
Composer: | Thomas Jackson, 1715-1781 |
1 Jesus! the name high over all,
In hell, or earth, or sky;
Angels and men before it fall,
And devils fear and fly.
2 Jesus! the name to sinners dear,
The name to sinners given;
It scatters all their guilty fear,
It turns their hell to heaven.
3 Jesus the prisoner's fetters breaks,
And bruises Satan's head;
Power into strengthless souls it speaks,
And life into the dead.
4 O that the world might taste and see
The riches of His grace!
The arms of love that compass me
Would all mankind embrace.
5 His only righteousness I show,
His saving truth proclaim;
'Tis all my business here below
To cry, "Behold the Lamb!"
6 Happy, if with my latest breath
I may but gasp His name;
Preach Him to all, and cry in death,
"Behold, behold the Lamb!"
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Jesus! the name high over all |
Author: | C. Wesley, 1707-1788 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Topic: | Christian: Experience; Experience, Christian; Christ: Grace of Christ(6 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BYZANTIUM |
Composer: | Thomas Jackson, 1715-1781 |
Meter: | C.M. |
Key: | D Major |