Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1815
Compiler: John Thompson et al
Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace
First Line: How happy are they
Topic: The Praises of God
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
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Hymn Number: 144
Page Number: 132, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow happy are they
Who the Saviour obey
And have laid up their treasures 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 believ'd
What a joy it receiv'd,
What a heav'n in Jesus' name.
'Twas a heaven below,
My Saviour to know,
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,
Way my joy and my song,
O that all his salvation might see;
He hath lov'd me, I cri'd,
He hath suffer'd and di'd,
To redeem such a rebel as me.
On the wings of his love,
I was carri'd 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 justifi'd I,
Nor envi'd 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 that holy delight,
Which I felt in the life giving blood;
Of my Saviour possess'd,
I was perfectly bless'd,
As if fill'd with the goodness of God.