Text: | Oh, Perfect Life of Love |
Author: | Henry W. Baker, 1821-77 |
Tune: | SOUTHWELL |
Composer: | William Daman, c. 1540-91 |
1 Oh, 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,
You died to make me free!
6 In ev'ry time of need,
Before the judgment throne,
Your works, O Lamb of God, I'll plead,
Your merits, not my own.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Oh, perfect life of love! |
Title: | Oh, Perfect Life of Love |
Author: | Henry W. Baker, 1821-77 (abr, akt,) |
Meter: | SM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Good Friday |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SOUTHWELL |
Composer: | William Daman, c. 1540-91 |
Meter: | SM |
Key: | e minor |