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CLI. Peace, by the Blood of the Cross

1 My dear Master Jesus Christ,
For peace to thee I fly;
In the Saviour, I am blest
To all eternity:
Free from care, and sin, and strife,
I rest in my dear bridegroom's love!
Ever living in that Life,
Which Jesus lives above.

2 O! the heights of Jesus's grace,
Which I so richly view,
Saviour, in thy lov'd embrace
Are blessings ever new:
Blessings, constant as the day,
Flows from that wounded heart of thine;
All the force of words can't say
How glorious, how divine.

3 Lost in wonder, I alore
The mighty Prince of Life;
Him to praise for evermore,
Be now my only strife:
That God might not frown on me,
Nor doom my soul to banishment,
He upon the shameful tree
To suffer was content.

4 Patient he the cross endur'd
Did all the shame despise,
Well he knew and was assur'd,
This bloody sacrifice
Should his children all complete
In spotless truth and purity;
This the joy before him set
When he engag'd to die.

5 Here my sin and curse was drown'd,
Redemption here obtain'd;
Here the peace, once lost, and found,
And Life eternal gain'd:
Dead upon the cross, in him,
Atonement for my sin I see,
Weeping from each lifeless limb,
For enemies, for me.

Text Information

• First Line: My dear Master, Jesus Christ
• Title: Peace, by the Blood of the Cross
• Author: John Relly
• Meter: P. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1792
• Scripture:
  Romans 5:8-9
  ;
  1 Corinthians 1:31
  ;
  1 Corinthians 3:11
  ;
  Galatians 6:14
• Topic: The Death of Jesus, who Died for All; Who tasted Death for Every Man
• Notes: Public Domain.

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