O how happy are they
Who the Savior obey,
And have laid up their
treasure above!
Tongue cannot express
The sweet comfort and peace
Of a soul in its earliest
love.
That comfort was
mine,
When the favor divine
I first found in the blood
of the Lamb;
When my heart it believed,
What a joy it received,
What a heaven in Jesus’
Name!
’Twas a heaven below,
My Redeemer to know,
And the angels could do
nothing more,
Than to fall at His feet,
And the story repeat,
And the Lover of sinners
adore.
Jesus all the day long
Was my joy and my song;
O that all His salvation
may see!
He hath loved me, I cried,
He hath suffered, and died,
To redeem such a rebel as
me.
On the wings of His
love,
I was carried above
All sin, and temptation,
and pain;
I could not believe,
That I ever should grieve,
That I ever should suffer
again.
I rode on the sky,
Freely justified I!
Nor envied Elijah his seat;
My soul mounted higher,
In a chariot of fire,
And the moon it was under
my feet.
O the rapturous height
Of the holy delight,
Which I felt in the life
giving blood!
Of my Savior possessed
I was perfectly blest,
As if filled with the
fullness of God.