257 | CPWI Hymnal#258a | 258b |
Text: | Jesus, the name high over all |
Author: | Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 |
Tune: | NATIVITY |
Composer: | Henry Lahee, 1826-1912 |
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 bfeaks,
and bruises Satan's head;
power into strengthless souls he 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: | Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 |
Meter: | C.M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2010 |
Topic: | General Hymns: God the Son |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | NATIVITY |
Composer: | Henry Lahee, 1826-1912 |
Meter: | C.M. |
Key: | B♭ Major |