O Thou who at Thy creature’s bar
Thy glorious Godhead didst
declare,
A true and good confession make;
Come in Thy Spirit from above
And arm me with Thy faithful
love,
For Thy own truth and mercy’s
sake.
Called forth by Thee Thou know’st
I am,
Thy truth and mercy to proclaim,
Thy Godhead, and eternal power,
The man whom God His fellow owns,
Whom angel-powers, dominions,
thrones
Through all eternity adore.
Thee, high enthroned above all
height,
Thee God of God, and Light of
Light,
I come undaunted to confess,
With God essentially the same,
JEHOVAH, JAH, the great I AM,
The Lord of Hosts, the Prince of
Peace.
The sovereign, everlasting Lord,
The glorious, unbeginning Word,
The Son of God, the Son of man,
God over heaven and earth supreme
Made flesh Thy creature to
redeem,
For me incarnated, and slain.
Slain for a sinful world, and
me,
Our Surety hung upon the tree;
Thy body bore our guilty load:
My Lamb for sin an offering made,
The debt of all mankind hath
paid,
And bought, and sprinkled us with
blood.
That blood applied by faith I
feel,
And come its healing power to
tell,
Through which I know my sins
forgiven
A witness I, that all may find
The peace deserved for all
mankind,
And walk with God, my God, to
heaven.
I come to testify the grace
My Lord obtained for all our
race,
Enough ten thousand worlds to
save;
Salvation is in Jesu’s Name,
Which every soul of man may
claim,
And all that seek the grace,
shall have.
Salvation from the power of sin,
Salvation from the root within,
Salvation into perfect love,
(Thy grace to all hath brought it
near,)
An uttermost salvation here,
Salvation up to heaven above.
Thy power and saving grace to
show,
A warfare at Thy charge I go,
Strong in the Lord, and Thy great
might,
Gladly take up the hallowed
cross,
And suffering all things for Thy
cause,
Beneath that bloody banner fight.
A spectacle to fiends and men,
To all their fierce or cool
disdain
With calmest pity I submit;
Determined naught to know beside
My Jesus, and Him crucified,
I tread the world beneath my
feet.
Superior to their smile, or
frown,
On all their goods my soul looks
down,
Their pleasures, wealth, and
pomp, and state:
The man that dares their god
despise,
The Christian, he alone is wise!
The Christian, he alone is great!
O God, let all my life declare
How happy all Thy servants are,
How far above these earthly
things,
How pure when washed in Jesu’s
blood,
How intimately one with God,
An heaven-born race of priests
and kings.
For this alone I live below,
The power of godliness to show,
The wonders wrought by Jesu’s
Name.
O that I may but faithful prove,
Witness to all Thy pardoning
love,
And point them to th’atoning
Lamb!
Let me to every creature cry,
The poor and rich, the low and
high,
“Believe, and feel thy sins
forgiven!
Damned, till by Jesus saved, thou
art,
Till Jesu’s blood hath washed thy
heart
Thou canst not find the gate of
heaven.”
Thou, Jesu, Thou my breast
inspire,
And touch my lips with hallowed
fire,
And loose a stammering infant’s
tongue;
Prepare the vessel of Thy grace,
Adorn me with the robes of
praise,
And mercy shall be all my song.
Mercy for those that know not
God,
Mercy for all, in Jesu’s blood,
Mercy that earth and heaven
transcends;
Love, that overwhelms the saints
in light,
The length, and breadth, and
depth, and height
Of love Divine, which never ends.
A faithful witness of Thy
grace,
Long may I fill th’allotted
space,
And answer all Thy great design;
Walk in the works by Thee
prepared,
And find annexed the vast reward,
The crown of righteousness
Divine.
When I have lived to Thee alone
Pronounce the welcome word, Well
done,
And let me take my place above,
Enter into my Master’s joy,
And all eternity employ
In praise, and ecstasy, and love.
